From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4064 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Still on i18n Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:47:49 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010214134749.015fb470@server-1> References: <002901c0960f$f60d0c60$a3ccfea9@nuovo> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394756 22554 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:39:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:39:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: S2P development In-Reply-To: <3A8A3820.93E6E1A@wkap.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4064 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4064 At 08:47 AM 2/14/01 +0100, S2P development wrote: >Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> there's one point I would like to make on i18n: proper >> support for different decimal/thousand separators; >> different languages use different symbols (mostly, they swap >> the meaning of comma and dot); this should be taken in >> consideration esp. when typesetting math formulas, to take >> care of correct spacing. > >Yes, but how? > >It should probably be done, but input syntax is very nasty. >Even if $10,50$ is a number, $[10, 50]$ isn't. If somebody >can think of a reasonable algorithm to decide when to do what, >I'd be very happy to implement it > >(unf., you can't 'just' make stuff like dot and comma \active). >It's not just numbers, there are some other language changes >in math typesetting. Waiting for MathML in context support >might be the best solution :-) There is a file supp-num.tex in the distribution which have some digit manipulation macros. They even work -) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------