neqn.1 (2010 09)

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Fractions
Fractions are produced by using
over:
Source Text Result
a over b a
_
b
Square Roots
sqrt produces square roots:
Source Text Result
1 over sqrt {ax sup 2+bx+c} _____1____
________
\|ax2+bx+c
Upper and Lower Limits
The keywords from and to specify lower and upper limits:
Source Text Result
lim from {n -> inf } n
sum from 0 to n x sub i lim Rx
n->oo0 i
Brackets and Braces
Left and right brackets, braces, and such, of proper height are made with left and right:
Source Text Result
left[{xsup2+ysup2}
over alpha right ] ˜=˜ 1 | |
|x2+y2|
|_____| = 1
|A|
Legal characters after left and right are braces, brackets, bars, c and f for ceiling and floor, and
""
for nothing at all (useful for a right-side-only bracket). A left char need not have a matching right
char.
Vertical Piles
Vertical piles of elements are made with
pile, lpile, cpile, and rpile:
Source Text Result
pile {a above bb above ccc} a
bb
ccc
Piles can have arbitrary numbers of elements; lpile left aligns, pile and cpile center (but with
different vertical spacing), and rpile right aligns.
2 Hewlett-Packard Company − 2 − HP-UX 11i Version 3: September 2010