From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Fwd: log: use \thinspace instead of \,
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 00:08:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f58e0a00-e455-1b18-67a3-dbb2cf0c7f5a@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4242e7b1-47d3-5969-1838-4dc18140050c@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: [NTG-context] log: use \thinspace instead of \,
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 00:08:39 +0200
From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
On 6/30/2021 10:57 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Alan Braslau schrieb am 29.06.2021 um 17:40:
>> On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:06:02 +0200
>> Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe, but in running text I use \, all the time e.\,g. in
>>> abbreviations or for numbers (10\,000). At least in German typography
>>> these “spatiums” are necessary.
>> In French typography as well.
>>
>> Indeed,
>> American: 10,000.00
>> French: 10\,000,00
>> (and other languages).
>>
>> This is quite readable, and much preferred to the use of any kind of
>> macro that might format numbers according to language.
>>
>> I find that students often need such helpers when deciphering many
>> digits.
>
> Let's not forget all of these spaces commands are used in math mode.
Sure, and thet adaot to math mode. They will nto dissppear, it's just
that in macros I like more verbose names.
Hans
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