Bug summary

There seems to be a different alignment for the minus sign depending on if the string contains only the minus sign or more characters when LaTeX is used.

Code for reproduction

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.rcParams.update({"text.usetex": True})

plt.text(0, 0, '$-3$', fontsize=40)
plt.text(0.2, 0, '$-$', fontsize=40)
plt.text(0.28, 0, '$3$', fontsize=40)
plt.ylim(-0.1, 0.1);
plt.axis('off');

Actual outcome

Expected outcome

Additional information

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Operating system

macOS Sonoma 14.6.1

Matplotlib Version

3.9.2

Matplotlib Backend

module://matplotlib_inline.backend_inline

Python version

3.10.13

Jupyter version

6.5.4

Installation

conda