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[Murali Agastya <address@hidden>]

While on the subject of excessive space between symbols, 
also note that  $(\cdot)$ looks quite different in TeXmacs. 

Murali 
 

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:

> 
> > > > In TeXmacs that is: $ - tab @ @
> > >
> > > I get the same (excessive) amount of space in this case.
> >
> > Not true for me. (version 1.0.2)
> >
> > The regular minus (display in leftmost corner of the window: "math -") 
> > looks
> > identical to the negation (display in leftmost corner of the window: "math
> > <um>") but the space afterwards is smaller (for minus infty just the same 
> > as
> > for minus 1 or anything else)
> >
> > If you don't see the difference: is it because you can't insert <um>, or
> > because the <um> is not displayed any different from minus?
> 
> A binary minus has a small space before and a small space after.
> The unary minus has no space before and no space after.
> This is the same as in TeX.
> 
> > Furthermore: What do you mean by "much more" and "excessive"? Here it is 
> > just
> > a tiny difference that only an expert would notice. (comparable to one vs.
> > two spaces in math mode)
> 
> There is no excessive or much more space in either cases:
> it is exactly right and similar to TeX.
> 
>