* thousand separator space
@ 2022-11-21 20:01 Jan Willem Flamma via ntg-context
2022-11-21 22:08 ` Max Chernoff via ntg-context
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From: Jan Willem Flamma via ntg-context @ 2022-11-21 20:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Dear list,
Two silly short questions.
Why is there an additional space after the thousand separator in math mode?
And what can I do to get rid of the additional space?
\starttext
1,000
\blank
$1,000$
\stoptext
Kind regards,
Jan Willem Flamma
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* Re: thousand separator space
2022-11-21 20:01 thousand separator space Jan Willem Flamma via ntg-context
@ 2022-11-21 22:08 ` Max Chernoff via ntg-context
2022-11-22 7:58 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
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From: Max Chernoff via ntg-context @ 2022-11-21 22:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi Jan,
> Why is there an additional space after the thousand separator in math mode?
Because something like
${\mathbb N} = \{1,2,3,4,\dots\}$
would look quite bad without any space between the numbers.
(The technical reason is that commas have the math class \mathpunct,
meaning that TeX automatically adds a space after them. Adding the
braces converts it to \mathord, which doesn't add any spaces.)
> And what can I do to get rid of the additional space?
The TeXbook recommends that you wrap the comma in curly braces
$x = 1{,}000$
but there's probably a ConTeXt \setupxxx command that would have the same
effect.
Many European languages use the comma as a decimal separator, so I'd
generally recommend using a thinspace (\,) instead of a comma as a
thousands separator to avoid confusion.
Thanks,
-- Max
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