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

[Ted Harding]

On 29-Jul-2014 14:05:46 Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>>From address@hidden Tue Jul 29 13:41:51 2014
>>
>>> How can I access the "minus plus" symbol?
>>
>>"\(+-" works for me. Maybe the charactor order you use is wrong.
> 
> I need "minus plus" as well as "plus minus".
> For plus minus you can also use \[+-].
> But \[-+] gives warning, and the groff_char(7)
> man page entry for this symbol is not clear to me.
> 
> Anton

As you say, for "plus minus" you can use "\[+-]", and this results
in a symbols "±" consistiing of a "+" sign above a "-" sign.

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?

Ted.

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