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

[Denis M. Wilson]

Try something like

.char \[-+] \f[S]\v'.1v'\z+\v'-.25v'\-\v'.25v'\v'-.1v'\f[]

The spacing needs more fine-tuning, I don't have time at the moment.

Denis

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:21:01 +0100 (BST)
(Ted Harding) <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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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