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jbezos / enumitem

Customize enumerate, itemize and description
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Recommendation: change hyphen "-" into minus sign "−" or en dash "–" when start=-n is used #24

Open typomaster2 opened 3 years ago

typomaster2 commented 3 years ago

Minor typographical suggestion. Currently, the MWE

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}[start=-2] %here n := 2
    \item This
    \item is
    \item just
    \item a
    \item demo.
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

gives the output

example of output

The hyphen "-" is used for displaying "minus 2", "minus 1" and so on. I recommend changing the default behaviour to the minus sign (−). The en dash (–) is also better than the hyphen if adding the minus sign is unfeasible (en dash = -- in TeX, of course).

This is really a low priority recommendation as a) one rarely needs negative item labels, b) there are easy manual work-arounds. But still a small improvement, in my humble opinion.

jbezos commented 2 years ago

Just define a label in math mode: label=$\arabic*$. Or is there any limitation with this solution?