Re: GNU eqn clarifications and reforms (was: EQN - special words)

[G. Branden Robinson]

[self-follow-up]

Yet another of my self-clarifications/corrections...

At 2023-05-31T22:18:04-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At any rate, "chartype" seems to be just syntactic sugar for iterated
> "type" commands, as follows.
> 
>         chartype "CLASS" abc
> 
> becomes
> 
>         type "CLASS" "a"
>         type "CLASS" "b"
>         type "CLASS" "c"
> 
> where a, b, c, are ordinary or special groff characters.

The foregoing isn't _quite_ syntactic sugar.  In GNU eqn, a `type`
assignment applies only to the subsequent expression; `chartype`
assignments are persistent for the rest of the life of the eqn process,
until overridden.

I got this right in my updates to the eqn(1) page but managed to goof it
here on the list.

Regards,
Branden

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