From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4086 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: special math minus Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:17:10 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010215141710.0195d810@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394775 22742 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:39:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:39:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4086 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4086 Hi, Sometimes a special minus sign is used to distinguish between a - b and -b. In the second case, the sign is alightly raised and looks more like a hyphen than a math minus. Is there a pre-coocked macro for that? [the problem is that \hbox's are not zware of superscript status and therefore cannot be used, Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------