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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>@minus (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="@minus (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="@minus (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Glyphs-for-Text.html" rel="up" title="Glyphs for Text"> <link href="_0040geq-_0040leq.html" rel="next" title="@geq @leq"> <link href="_0040textdegree.html" rel="prev" title="@textdegree"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="subsection" id="g_t_0040minus"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="_0040geq-_0040leq.html" accesskey="n" rel="next"><code>@geq</code> (≥) and <code>@leq</code> (≤): Inserting Relations</a>, Previous: <a href="_0040textdegree.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><code>@textdegree</code> (°): Degrees Symbol</a>, Up: <a href="Glyphs-for-Text.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Glyphs for Text</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="g_t_0040minus-_0028_2212_0029_003a-Inserting-a-Minus-Sign"></span><h4 class="subsection">11.8.9 <code>@minus</code> (-): Inserting a Minus Sign</h4> <span id="minus"></span><span id="index-minus"></span> <span id="index-Minus-sign"></span> <span id="index-Em-dash_002c-compared-to-minus-sign"></span> <span id="index-Hyphen_002c-compared-to-minus"></span> <p>Use the <code>@minus{}</code> command to generate a minus sign. In a fixed-width font, this is a single hyphen, but in a proportional font, the symbol is the customary length for a minus sign—a little longer than a hyphen, shorter than an em-dash: </p> <div class="display"> <pre class="display">‘<samp>-</samp>’ is a minus sign generated with ‘<samp>@minus{}</samp>’, ‘-’ is a hyphen generated with the character ‘<samp>-</samp>’, ‘—’ is an em-dash for text. </pre></div> <p>In the fixed-width font used by Info, <code>@minus{}</code> is the same as a hyphen. </p> <p>You should not use <code>@minus{}</code> inside <code>@code</code> or <code>@example</code> because the width distinction is not made in the fixed-width font they use. </p> <p>When you use <code>@minus</code> to specify the mark beginning each entry in an itemized list, you do not need to type the braces (see <a href="_0040itemize.html"><code>@itemize</code>: Making an Itemized List</a>). </p> <p>If you actually want to typeset some math that does a subtraction, it is better to use <code>@math</code>. Then the regular ‘<samp>-</samp>’ character produces a minus sign, as in <code>@math{a-b}</code> (see <a href="Inserting-Math.html"><code>@math</code> and <code>@displaymath</code>: Formatting Mathematics</a>). </p> </div> </body> </html>