mathtext support for \phantom, \llap, \rlap#
mathtext gained support for the TeX macros \phantom, \llap, and
\rlap. \phantom allows to occupy some space on the canvas as if
some text was being rendered, without actually rendering that text, whereas
\llap and \rlap allows to render some text on the canvas while
pretending that it occupies no space. Altogether these macros allow some finer
control of text alignments.
See https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb22-4/tb72perlS.pdf for a detailed description of these macros.