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Re: [Groff] \[-+] not available? why?


From: Anton Shterenlikht
Subject: Re: [Groff] \[-+] not available? why?
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:14:27 +0100 (BST)

>From address@hidden Tue Jul 29 15:42:56 2014
>
>Hi Ted,
>
>> When you say 'I need "minus plus" as well as "plus minus", do you
>> mean that you also need a symbol consisting of a "-" sign above
>> a "+" sign?
>
>Yes.  (I didn't spot the distinction.)
>
>    $ curl -sS 
> http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/opentype/glyphlist.txt |
>    > egrep '(plus|minus){2}'
>    minusplus;2213
>    plusminus;00B1
>    $
>
>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff-commit/2002-12/msg00061.html is
>what I think Werner was mentioning;  minusplus being replaced with
>uni2213.
>
>Cheers, Ralph.
>

Having both symbols is useful.
For example I want to say that

 a = +- i
 b = -+ i

The important consequence is that although the actual
signs might not be known, they must be opposite for
a and b.

Yes, I use Postscript output. As far as I understood
from Werner's reply, this symbol is now available via
the PS driver.

Anton



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