NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/text/tex/14286

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From: [e-mail] (Gerd Neugebauer)
Subject: Re: space of minus sign without printing minus sign?
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>>>>> On Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:08:54 GMT, [e-mail] (Mingzuo Shen) said:

[...]

MS> The simple solution to me, without
MS> any complicated programming, is to simply \hskip the amount
MS> of horizontal space taken by the minus sign (within $ and $)
MS> but without actually printing the minus sign.

You can try the TeX command \phantom. It takes one argument and
produces a box with the dimensions of this argument. The argument
itself is not printed. Thus

\\    -1  \phantom{-}$\epsilon$
\\      \phantom{-}1  -$\epsilon$

should do the trick.

Note that you have to be carful to typeset the same thing inside the
phantom as outside. As we know there are different kinds of - around!
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