Re: [TUHS] Re: symbols in eqnchar

[Damian McGuckin]

Hi Branden,

On Wed, 5 Jul 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote:

> In your new eqn user's guide, you might spell out the fact that "wig" is 
> short for "wiggle".  My brain failed to come up with that expansion, and 
> struggled to figure out how characterizing a tilde as a "wig" over 
> another glyph was ever widespread mathemathical parlance.

I will mention that. I called it a wiggle long before I knew its real name.

But then we have the popular children's pop group the Wiggles here in Oz.

I also call braces squiggly brackets and parentheses round brackets.

EQNCHAR calls a solid square symbol a 'blot'. Odd name. Years ago, I saw 
the troff special character name \(bx (or box) for ths symbol.

> Perhaps I have suffered from overexposure to a recent U.S. president.

I would say so. You need a holiday back in Oz. A spring-like day (in the 
middle of winter) here today.

Thanks - Damian

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