From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5525 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: math punctuation Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 08:50:19 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20010906084918.03093518@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010905225245.00a87828@public.uni-hamburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396113 2424 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:01:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:01:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Eckhart =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guth=F6hrlein?= In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010905225245.00a87828@public.uni-hamburg.de> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5525 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5525 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------