Eqn (software)
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Eqn (software)
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Part of the troff suite of Unix document layout tools, eqn is a preprocessor that formats equations for printing. A similar program, neqn, accepted the same input as eqn, but produced output tuned to look better in nroff. The eqn program was created in 1974 by Brian Kernighan and Lorinda Cherry.
It was implemented using yacc compiler-compiler. The input language used by eqn allows the user to write mathematical expressions in much the same way as they would be spoken aloud. The language is defin
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Preprocessor that formats equations for drawing
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