Re: [eqn] Maps to symbol

Nguyễn Gia Phong via discussion of the GNU roff typesetting system and related software <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:32:15 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 2026-03-26T00:19:48-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2026-03-26T13:55:31+0900, Nguyễn Gia Phong wrote
> > On the other hand, \[uNNNN] does not work for MathML output.
> 
> Wondering generally to the development and user community:
> 
> ...maybe it should?

I thought it would be safe to make it work,
as the current behavior is just outputing an error:

<merror>unknown eqn/troff special char uNNNN</merror>

With patch <[email protected]>
("[eqn]: Use XML character references in MathML output.")
applied, this would instead be:

<mo>&#xNNNN;</mo>
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