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When you write a-b in a Microsoft equation it assumes that this is 'a minus b' and adds spacing around the minus sign accordingly. But what if you want a hyphen instead such as in a double-barrelled name?
workless
Posted 2018-03-19T00:01:06.713
Reputation: 161
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Simply adding speech marks around the text causes it to be treated as 'Normal text' so the minus sign is treated as a hyphen with no spacing around it.
Regular minus sign by typing a-b:
Hyphen by typing "a-b":
workless
Posted 2018-03-19T00:01:06.713
Reputation: 161
This works, but I get the resulting string in non-italics, as opposed to everything else in the equation editor. – vmg – 2019-09-27T23:05:48.717
I got it - the way to do it is to add only the hyphen in double quotes:
a"-"bwill yield the expected result with bothaandbin italics. Note that if you 'cut and pastea"-"binto an equation you need to position the cursor right after the second double quote and before theband then press space - that will apply the 'Normal text' to the hyphen and remove the double quotes. – vmg – 2019-09-28T00:32:25.037