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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 days agoIn LaTeX, a single hyphen is just - while getting a range hyphen (the longer one) is --. I got chewed out by my graduate advisor for getting that wrong in a research paper. The difference is visibly small, but it does matter for clarity.
minus-square@DasuslinkEnglish1•2 days ago in a research paper Well yeah there are contexts in which it matters. That’s why I know the alt code for it. :D
In LaTeX, a single hyphen is just - while getting a range hyphen (the longer one) is --. I got chewed out by my graduate advisor for getting that wrong in a research paper. The difference is visibly small, but it does matter for clarity.
Well yeah there are contexts in which it matters. That’s why I know the alt code for it. :D