who only by moving can balance

-- alright. So. There is a thing that *really* annoys me about a lot of journals, right, which is that they provide negative numbers with, as the leading glyph, −. Notably, this is not -, and Even More Notably (this being the source of my frustration) it is not a glyph that is, by default, interpreted as a minus sign by spreadsheet programmes. Where, you know, I want to copy data. From tables. To wrangle.

Here, then, are my discoveries:

1. It's all the fault of siunitx; and, worse,
   
2. if you ask about this on stackexchange, you get a bunch of comments and replies earnestly informing you that this is the correct symbol, actually, why would you want to replace it with a dash, what kind of abomination--