hi,

when I type this

$3 - 2$

I get a pretty long line for the minus operator.
That is ok, if I want to show a difference of two numbers.

But when I type this;

$-3 + 2$

I don't want such a huge sign in front of the number.

Is there an easy way to change this?

In article
<7f56d996-7e2c-46d5-b850-0ce449db5...@h2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>,

TeX typesets this in the way used as a standard in mathematics
publishing.  So I recommend *not* changing it.  If you want a hyphen,
use a hyphen:
-$3+2$

There is a situation with some old math papers ... $p$-dimensional
Hausdorff measure typeset $p - \Lambda$ comes out mistakenly looking
like a subtraction.  Instead $p$-$\Lambda$ or something similar is
better-looking.

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G. A. Edgar                              http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~edgar/