Re: \minus entity and LaTeX export

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

>>       "** Science et al."
>> -     ("minus" "\\minus" t "&minus;" "-" "-" "−")
>> +     ("minus" "-" t "&minus;" "-" "-" "−")
>
> 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.

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.

Best,
Ihor