From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: semicolon in mathmode
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 22:01:30 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1708252159460.42037@nqv-znpobbx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57429c91-fd2b-c3f3-bc86-14078802f742@wxs.nl>
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 8/25/2017 5:34 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:
>
>> Have you decided about treating ; the same as , when enabled in
>> \setupmathematics?
> Not really (I was away for a while anyway).
>
> The problem with these , ; things is that they can occur with and without
> intentional spacing, so we then probably have to be able to set , and ;
> independently (there is also a cultural issue: . vs ,).
>
> It's no big deal to implement it, more how to interface it,
>
> (and our master of math Aditya has to agree)
I have to admit that I have never seen semi-colon being used as a digit
separator.
Alan, do you need this for a one off project or is this something that is
commonly used in some country/domain specific typographic tradition?
Aditya
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-10 19:38 Alan Bowen
2017-08-10 20:34 ` Aditya Mahajan
2017-08-11 9:08 ` Hans Hagen
2017-08-25 15:34 ` Alan Bowen
2017-08-25 17:10 ` Hans Hagen
2017-08-26 2:01 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
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