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#190 Minus sign in equation viewer: problem with verbatiminput
I posted a problem with gretl to tex.stackexchange as I thought it was a pure LaTeX problem:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/237842/verbatiminput-whitespace-formatting
The comments suggest that the minus sign currently used in the equation viewer causes LaTeX errors. Could you change the minus sign to something compatible with LaTeX?
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Sebastian Bayer wrote:
In fact, who should bear the burden of adjustment is debatable IMO.
Here's the story: gretl has used (for a few years now) the Unicode
character 2212 for the minus sign if the output terminal supports Unicode.
This is typographically correct (see for example here:
http://www.punctuationmatters.com/the-difference-between-a-dash-and-a-minus-sign/),
but doesn't play nice with LaTeX because of its awkward relationships with
Unicode: the solution I use is to put the two lines
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2212}{-}
in the LaTeX preamble, so that it's the inputenc package that takes care
of everything.
This said, I don't know whether some adjustments could be made on the
gretl side to avoid problems.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti@univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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#190Thank you for the explanation and the solution!
Sebastian, you're sticking gretl's plain text (UTF-8)
output into LaTeX. I'm puzzled: why wouldn't you use
gretl's TeX output instead? (That has no problem with
the minus signs.)
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Allin Cottrell wrote:
I do that myself, from time to time, especially when preparing material
for students: I use the gui client to try things out, then when I'm happy
I just copy-n-paste the output into a \verbatim environment. Job done.
I must also admit that I quite like the visual impact of a chunk of
monospaced stuff inside an lmodern-dominated document.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti@univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
Exactly - I like the font of verbatim and it is much easier and quicker to include.
Again, could have closed this some time ago; AFAICS the solution is to use gretl's TeX output, and if you insist on using the other text output, well then you're on your own (with Jack's TeX solution).