Re: [Groff] Mission statement

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Ted,

> The values I chose for the constants in the expression were motivated
> by aiming for a reduction by 1/cuberoot(2) as one moves up one level
> of superscript, so that the point size of "z" in "$X sup V sup 2 sup
> z$" would be about half that of X: cuberoot(2) = 1.26, 14/11 = 1.27 --
> but only using small multipliers (since ".ps (u;\\n[.ps]*11+7/14>?5)"
> is set to work in "u", which for PS is points*1000, so 11-point is
> 11000u; and you could easily provoke overflow).

Is this a solution?

    $ python -c 'print 2 ** (-1 / 3.0)'
    0.793700525984
    $
    $ cat ted
    .ps 12p
    .tm \n[.ps]
    .ps 
(u;(\n[.ps]*7/10)+(\n[.ps]*9/100)+(\n[.ps]*3/1000)+(\n[.ps]*7/10000)>?5z)
    .tm \n[.ps]
    .ps 
(u;(\n[.ps]*7/10)+(\n[.ps]*9/100)+(\n[.ps]*3/1000)+(\n[.ps]*7/10000)>?5z)
    .tm \n[.ps]
    .ps 
(u;(\n[.ps]*7/10)+(\n[.ps]*9/100)+(\n[.ps]*3/1000)+(\n[.ps]*7/10000)>?5z)
    .tm \n[.ps]
    .ps 
(u;(\n[.ps]*7/10)+(\n[.ps]*9/100)+(\n[.ps]*3/1000)+(\n[.ps]*7/10000)>?5z)
    .tm \n[.ps]
    .ps 
(u;(\n[.ps]*7/10)+(\n[.ps]*9/100)+(\n[.ps]*3/1000)+(\n[.ps]*7/10000)>?5z)
    .tm \n[.ps]
    $
    $ troff ted
    12000
    9524
    7557
    5996
    5000
    5000
    $

Cheers, Ralph.