From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: math punctuation
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 08:50:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20010906084918.03093518@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010905225245.00a87828@public.uni-hamburg.de>
At 10:52 PM 9/5/2001 +0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
>At 18:09 05.09.2001 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>>PS. For the real hackers among us: one can swap comma's and periods in
>>math by saying
>>
>>\definemathpunctuation . mathcomma textperiod
>>\definemathpunctuation , mathperiod textcomma
>
>Why should you? Well, I could imagine an existing input file with the
>wrong decimal sign, which could be changed in this way, provided all
>numbers are in math mode. If it could be of use for a normal user: What
>are you thinking of?
converting non continental numbers into continental ones: 1,000 => 1.000
but for that purpose, there is already \digits
Hans
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-05 20:52 Eckhart Guthöhrlein
2001-09-06 6:50 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2001-09-06 7:54 ` Taco Hoekwater
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2001-09-05 16:09 Hans Hagen
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