make \minus equivalent to - operator #26193 #40948
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Add the typographically more correct minus sign
−
(\minus
) as an alternative for the traditionally used hyphen-minus-
(which is readilly available on all keyboard layouts).To many, it is aesthetically more pleasing because it has the same width as
+
. But the main advantage is that it would allow for copy-pasting negative numbers (and to some degree, formulas with subtractions) from correctly typeset PDF/HTML/... documents into Julia code. Actual code snippets can also accidentally be "beautified" by CMS/blog software, word processors, e-mail clients, etc.Fixes #26193.