From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/38913 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: %18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ? Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:42:53 +0100 Message-ID: <47A24EED.9020105@wxs.nl> References: <2823285E-0472-4B8C-AA7C-F1A2F3EE07E8@st.estfiles.de> <20080131223535.GA16318@gaston.couberia.bzh> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201819496 12610 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2008 22:44:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:44:56 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jan 31 23:45:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JKi9k-0005PY-BQ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:45:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF1F1FBEB; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:44:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05753-02-5; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:44:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B6BE1FB82; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:44:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85C6C1FB74 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:44:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07282-01-4 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:43:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 107121FBAA for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:43:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.103] (unverified [10.100.1.103]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 7875 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:43:26 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <20080131223535.GA16318@gaston.couberia.bzh> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:38913 Archived-At: Peter M=FCnster wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31 2008, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >> Any native arabic speaker out there? Is it %18 or 18% ?? > = > Hello, > = > I don't know nothing about Arabic script, but wouldn't it be logic to ask > for "%81 or 18%" ? interesting point ... ok, small numbers, but how about [bara erom] 12.472.477 [bara emos] [bara erom] 774.274.21 [bara emos] for long numbers a pretty fast reversing mind is needed math goes from left to right but i once heard a talk about a tendency to = go right - left as well (including mirrored symbols like \sum) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________