From: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: \minus entity and LaTeX export
Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 17:13:55 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <t5nvd4$dis$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czggbp8x.fsf@localhost>
On 14/05/2022 13:30, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Max Nikulin writes:
>
>>> "** Science et al."
>>> - ("minus" "\\minus" t "−" "-" "-" "−")
>>> + ("minus" "-" t "−" "-" "-" "−")
>>
>> Should it be "\textminus" instead? I never used it but my expectation
>> that it was added for text mode outside of equations: \minus1. It
>> required \usepackage{textcomp} in the past, but it seems it is not the
>> issue any more, so the symbol is available out of the box. I was not
>> following that changes in LaTeX so I may miss something.
>
> \textminus appears to work without textcomp. However, I am not sure if it
> should be used instead of math version.
Timothy tried texlive-2022, I had 2019 installed, users of old versions
may add \usepackage{textcomp}.
> Look at the attached screenshot where I tried to compare how \textminus
> vs. $-$ would look inside a document. I find the math version to be more
> visually appealing. Of course, we can always change to \textminus if
> people more familiar with typography jump in and ask for the change.
I am a bit lazy to check what font and what codepoint is used in each case.
From my point of view, the correct way to type negative numbers is
\(-1\), not \(-\)1. TeX math mode sets proper spaces around the
character, e.g. \(1 - 1\) has larger spaces around. I considered \minus
as something special for cases when a user has reasons to avoid math,
e.g. to avoid MathJax or images when a document contains only a few of
simple expressions.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-14 3:46 \minus entity and LaTeX export Max Nikulin
2022-05-14 6:17 ` Timothy
2022-05-14 6:30 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-05-14 10:13 ` Max Nikulin [this message]
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