[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125068] Accepting the real minus as a minus sign

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125068

zyklon87 at web.de changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEEDINFO                    |NEW

--- Comment #3 from zyklon87 at web.de ---
You can type the real minus easily with advanced keyboard layouts like Neo2
(neo-layout.org). Otherwise, you can include it by the usage of pasting from
symbol tables, like the one inbuilt one or e.g. gnome-characters. Both of which
are frequently used by me and surely a lot of other people for pasting other
glyphs like ⇒, ≤, ≄, ≉, ⊆, ؉, • and greek letters, to name a few examples.

The Hyphen-minus is not really a minus, because it’s just a hyphen, as the
length is too short for being a minus, by definition. In reality, it’s just a
dirty hack, that hyphens get used as minuses, because most keyboard layouts
don’t have a real minus easily reachable (without ALT/ALT_GR, etc.).

Exactly the same issue is the dash, being double the length of the hyphen (and
most keyboards also not providing the dash conveniently). Word for example
fixes this by auto-replacing hyphens with dashes, when heuristics detect that a
hyphen should in reality be a dash (I don’t know if Writer does the same, as I
deactivated some auto-replacement settings). It would only be consequent to do
the same with minuses, as hyphen-minuses are even more ugly than hyphen-dashes,
because they are regularly used in conjunction with pluses, which makes the
discrepancy immediately visible.

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