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- From: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
- Subject: Re: hyphen in math mode
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.222531.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 22:25:31 PST
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- In article <9688078@MVB.SAIC.COM>, DL24794@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU (Daniel H. Luecking) writes:
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- >>From: <gilligan@central.bldrdoc.gov>
- >>Try \hbox{-}, as in $x - y\hbox{-}z$.
-
- > This will not allow the hyphen to change sizes in sub/superscripts. I'd use
- > {\rm-} as in $A_{y{\rm-}x}$. I do not use the NFSS, so I don't know if it
- > will handle this properly.
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- That won't work. The best approach would be to use \mathchar to
- get the character. See the TeXbook chapter 17 for details.
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- -dh
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