From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/38903 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steffen Wolfrum Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: %18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ? Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:48:47 +0100 Message-ID: <636FB051-C5CA-48D2-A786-BD607BAA6CCE@st.estfiles.de> References: <2823285E-0472-4B8C-AA7C-F1A2F3EE07E8@st.estfiles.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201794623 15470 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2008 15:50:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:50:23 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jan 31 16:50:44 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 1JKbgS-0004fk-T4 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:50:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E721FB38; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:50:08 +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 13139-01-5; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:49:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD8051FB6B; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:49:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC721FB49 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:49:25 +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 13138-02-4 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:48:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtprelay05.ispgateway.de (smtprelay05.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.43]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4E41FB38 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:48:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [89.247.44.163] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtprelay05.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JKbej-0001WM-MM for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:48:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) X-Df-Sender: 698580 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:38903 Archived-At: Am 31.01.2008 um 16:08 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid: >> Any native arabic speaker out there? Is it %18 or 18% ?? > > It really depends on where you live. In Persian, 18% is common, among > Arabs, %18. Both languages are left-to-right, but there is more > than one > convention for dealing with mathematical directionality. > > Some of these issues are still being worked about in the Arabic-script > world. That's what I suspected ... > These subtlties need to be addressed for proper high-level handling of > Arabic-script in ConTeXt/mkiv. Yes!! > Best wishes > Idris Thanks, Steffen ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________