Negative numbers in option menu

[Kaveh Bazargan]

At 4:51 pm -0700 15/4/05, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:

[...]

>A leading dash is used to create a menu separator in option menus.
>(On some versions of OS X, the separator looks like a blank space.)
>
>The simplest way to work around this is probably to put a leading
>space in front of the negative numbers (or in front of all the menu
>items, for consistent appearance).
>
>If this is a Mac-only app, or if you're willing to do the bit of
>extra work to deal with high-ASCII characters cross-platform, you
>could instead use an n-dash (option-dash) to indicate a negative. The
>n-dash doesn't create a separator.

Wow. Thanks for the prompt reply. Putting the space fixed it.

Now, while I am at it, is there an easy way of right justifying the
numbers? I could pad them out I suppose.
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Kaveh Bazargan
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