Re: Regarding groff and eqn

[G. Branden Robinson]

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

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