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

[Ted Harding]

On 29-Jul-2014 15:14:27 Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>>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

In case you don't have it available, or can't access it, I will
how how to create it! (But not just now, since I have to do other
things; so later).

Ted.

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