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Re:Small guide to making nice tables [pdf] by michaelcampbell on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @11:44AM (#20156440)
What about it is "wrong"? Perhaps I'm scarred by my own institution's predilection of left-justifying (or center) columns of numbers that this seems fine to me.
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Re:Small guide to making nice tables [pdf] by dmlorenzetti on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @12:43PM (#20157081)
As shown, the minus sign is rendered as a hyphen. This looks glaring when you're used to math mode's thinner, longer minus sign.

To see the difference, typeset this with LaTeX:

    \documentclass{standalone}
    \begin{document}
    -50 vs $-50$
    \end{document}
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Re:Small guide to making nice tables [pdf] by michaelcampbell on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @01:15PM (#20157411)
Gotcha, thanks. Hardly "eye-bleed" worthy IMO, but noticeable for sure.
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Re:Small guide to making nice tables [pdf] by anjbe on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:23AM (#20162730)
Ever since realizing that a minus sign is supposed to line up with a plus, I’ve never been able to unsee it. Compare:

-Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

+Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

−Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

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