From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: %18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ?
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:06:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A2E12C.9050807@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.t5tg6tz7nx1yh1@ihamidnb.libarts.colostate.edu>
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:35:35 -0700, Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> 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%" ?
>
> Hmm, this could be a long discussion...
sure, but interesting (summary should be part of your arab typesetting
paper)
> In ancient times, Arabic numerals (whence our own) were pronounced as
> follows (translation):
>
> 1234 => "4 and 30 and 2 hundred and a thousand"
aha, makes sense
maybe it's also related to the fact that nowadays we see more numbers,
and have learned to see them 'as a whole' and not as a systematic sequence
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-31 9:27 Steffen Wolfrum
2008-01-31 12:44 ` Mr Dietrich Rordorf / MDPI
2008-01-31 15:08 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-01-31 15:48 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2008-01-31 15:51 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-01-31 20:25 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-01-31 22:54 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-01-31 22:59 ` Hans Hagen
2008-01-31 22:35 ` Peter Münster
2008-01-31 22:42 ` Hans Hagen
2008-01-31 23:11 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-02-01 2:50 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-02-01 9:22 ` Hans Hagen
2008-02-01 7:07 ` Otared Kavian
2008-02-01 11:15 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2008-02-01 12:14 ` Otared Kavian
2008-02-01 14:32 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-02-08 9:12 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-01-31 23:07 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-02-01 9:06 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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