No way to insert ± in units

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No way to insert ± in units

Opened this issue a year ago · 2 comments

There appears to be no way to insert a ± symbol in units, since \pm is replaced with "pm" (for picometer). \mp for the opposite still works, however.

Answer 1 · 2023-10-10T06:20:40.000Z

That's true (or at least there is no convenient way), but then I've never come across a case where it was needed: can you point to one?

Answer 2 · 2023-10-10T13:38:23.000Z

Yeah I've pretty much never had to do it either, except for an assignment where it was convenient to use the mass of a charged pion as a unit (\text{\ensuremath{m_{\pi^\pm}}}).