From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/12243 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: units and decimal separators Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 08:46:17 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: References: <224558765.20030515001753@iol.it> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053020012 9010 80.91.224.249 (15 May 2003 17:33:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 17:33:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu May 15 19:33:30 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19GMZ7-00028B-00 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 19:30:49 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57AC110AF9; Thu, 15 May 2003 19:32:27 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.185]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA2110AEC for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 19:28:23 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from [212.227.126.161] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19GMWl-0001GD-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 15 May 2003 19:28:23 +0200 Original-Received: from [194.230.176.164] (helo=fiee.net) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19GMWk-0002x8-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 15 May 2003 19:28:23 +0200 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <224558765.20030515001753@iol.it> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:12243 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:12243 >>> As far as I know, most European languages (that is, except for >>> English) use the dot to separate thousands and the comma to >>> separate integer part from decimals. > SR> In french thousand are separated by a space, and not by a dot. > Oh. Didn't know that :) (Actually I've seen a thin space used > in some Italian books, too --and if you want my Very Personal > Opinion, it's more legible, except in the few cases where it > may generate confusion ...) I think the dot is only a typewriter workaround, it should always be a "spatium" (small space, about 1/4 of font size). > SR> That would be great ! (and in case of need, frenchies are > SR> using sin, cos and tan ;-) ) germans also. Gr=FC=DFlis vom Hraban! --=20 http://www.fiee.net/texnique/