Re: Updating eqn

[Damian McGuckin]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2023, Carl Milsted wrote:

> Also, I'm contemplating making a version of eqn which supports far more 
> symbols. I was figuring on just using the TeX names without the annoying 
> backslashes and adding them to the list of pre-made macros. (Actually, 
> I'd do a separate list in order to be able to turn off this feature.) 
> The procedure looks pretty straightforward.

What symbols do you want?

> (And one of these days I'd like to support cube roots and subscripts and 
> superscripts on the left side of symbols. I'd like to bring eqn's 
> capabilities closer to those of TeX. I hate typing in all those 
> backslashes.)

You just do a subscript or superscript of nothing immediately preceding
the primary subject, e.g. to produce a left subscript of 'x':

        "" sub 3 x

Thanks - Damian

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