Re: Regarding groff and eqn

[Riza Dindir]

Thank you Branden, that was it. Now I can create an inline math
expression, although the inline math expression was nonsense in the
document :)

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 4:23 PM Riza Dindir <riza.dindir@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oh oh. Tooo many mistakes. What was i thinking. Will try these. Thanks.
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 13:17 G. Branden Robinson 
> <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> At 2022-08-16T12:56:30+0300, Riza Dindir wrote:
>> > I am using groff 1.22.4 on FreBSD 13.1. Wanted to write inline
>> > equations (in a document that uses ms macros), and it does not give me
>> > any inline equations. I must be missing something or doing something
>> > wrong.
>> >
>> > Here is my simple document.
>> >
>> > .TH
>> > Inline math
>>
>> Not related to your issue, but I think you mean "TL", the "title" macro,
>> not "TH", which is useful only inside tables ("TS"/"TE").
>>
>> > .NH
>> > Start
>> > .LP
>> > .EQ
>> > delim $$
>> > .EN
>> > .LP
>> > This is some paragraph with inline math: $sum from 1 to 10 = 5 + x$.
>> >
>> > I do process this with
>> >
>> > pic inline-math.ms | groff -ms > main.ps
>> >
>> > But all I get in the document is a centered line with delim $$
>> > following with the paragraph that is given as the last line in the
>> > document.
>> >
>> > How could I do inline math expressions in paragraphs?
>>
>> The equation preprocessor is eqn, not pic.
>>
>> Try this.
>>
>> eqn inline-math.ms | groff -ms > main.ps
>>
>> You can also do this.
>>
>> groff -e -ms > main.ps
>>
>> Regards,
>> Branden