From: Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>
To: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: log: use \thinspace instead of \,
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 09:40:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210629094018.0df21f12@poo.hsd1.co.comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6CC767DB-5C1F-4A7F-8161-6BA327499D40@fiee.net>
On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:06:02 +0200
Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote:
> Maybe, but in running text I use \, all the time e.\,g. in
> abbreviations or for numbers (10\,000). At least in German typography
> these “spatiums” are necessary.
In French typography as well.
Indeed,
American: 10,000.00
French: 10\,000,00
(and other languages).
This is quite readable, and much preferred to the use of any kind of
macro that might format numbers according to language.
I find that students often need such helpers when deciphering many
digits.
Alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-29 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-28 23:08 Rik Kabel
2021-06-29 10:34 ` Hans Hagen
2021-06-29 12:06 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-06-29 15:40 ` Alan Braslau [this message]
2021-06-30 20:57 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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