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From: S2P development <taco.hoekwater@wkap.nl>
Subject: Re: Still on i18n
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:47:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A8A3820.93E6E1A@wkap.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002901c0960f$f60d0c60$a3ccfea9@nuovo>

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 :-)

Greetings, Taco


  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-14  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-13 15:50 Giuseppe Bilotta
2001-02-14  7:47 ` S2P development [this message]
2001-02-14 12:47   ` Hans Hagen
2001-02-14 12:49   ` Hans Hagen
2001-02-14 14:49   ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2001-02-20 12:06     ` Hans Hagen

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