Re: units and decimal separators

[Sebastian Rooks <sebastian.rooks@free.fr>]

Thank you all of you for your answers, all of them works !
I think that I will go with \enablemathpunctuation, which seems to 
handle both the text and math cases without any added  special mark 
everywhere in the text.
Bye,

 Seb.

Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:

>On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 05:19:13PM +0200, Sebastian Rooks wrote:
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>>How can I get ConteXt to typeset numbers as it should be done in french 
>>in which we use a comma and not a point to separate units and decimals ?
>>That is when I write \mathematics{5,3} I want to have 5,3 and not 5, 3 
>>(with a small space between the comma and the 3), as it is when I use 
>>the english separator, a point.
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>Try \enablemathpunctuation and then write 5,3 for a decimal sign
>and f(x, y) if the comma is used as a list seperator.
>Search the list archive for subject "math punctuation", Hans
>added this some time ago. If you can't find it, I can forward
>the relevant messages to you.
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