From: Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: issues with greeknumerals
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 23:24:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5DEA9E57-DAEA-4022-A623-65D034E6D9AE@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C7AE332E-2B78-4907-917F-70587D3E5C4A@gmail.com>
On 7 avr. 2014, at 21:25, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 07.04.2014 um 21:18 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>:
> […]
>>
>> Since Romannumerals and romannumerals (or Characters and characters) are
>> required, I thought it would be consistent to use Greeknumerals and
>> greeknumerals. But I was obviously wrong.
>
> This could be a bug because there shouldn’t be a difference between the two conversion names.
Maybe not, since Roman numerals i, ii, iii, iv, etc correspond really to the way Romans used to write numbers, while Greek numerals \alpha, \beta, \gamma, \delta, etc are rather our modern way of numbering items, analogous to the case one would say a), b), c), d) etc.
Would Thomas Schmitz give us some insight?
Best regards: OK
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-07 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-07 18:45 Pablo Rodriguez
2014-04-07 18:59 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-04-07 19:18 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2014-04-07 19:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-04-07 21:24 ` Otared Kavian [this message]
2014-04-07 21:37 ` Schmitz Thomas A.
2014-04-08 3:09 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-04-08 4:31 ` Otared Kavian
2014-04-08 14:36 ` Pablo Rodriguez
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