X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["777" "Fri" "21" "February" "1997" "09:35:32" "+0200" "Pedro J. Aphalo" "aphalo@cc.joensuu.fi" nil "24" "Re: International documents" "^Date:" nil nil "2" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA10883; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:37:44 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <7.F87AB6D4@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 8:37:44 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 104592 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:37:37 +0100 Received: from cc.joensuu.fi (root@cc.joensuu.fi [193.167.41.12]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with SMTP id IAA11557 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:37:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from voitatti (voitatti.joensuu.fi [193.167.41.240]) by cc.joensuu.fi (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA11147 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:42:25 +0200 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.52) Message-ID: <199702210742.JAA11147@cc.joensuu.fi> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Comments: Authenticated sender is Organization: METLA - Joensuu In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:35:32 +0200 From: "Pedro J. Aphalo" Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: International documents Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1828 On 18 Feb 97 at 15:12, Hans Aberg wrote: > For example, with the numbers, it is so that all Swedish numbers _should_ > be typeset with a comma like "3,1415..", and not "3.1415..", as in English. In English one could use either 1\,234.567 or 1,234.567, or maybe 1234.567, or even 1\,234{\cdot}567, etc. So "format" for numbers changes both within and between languages... Pedro. =============================================================== Pedro J. Aphalo Finnish Forest Research Institute Joensuu Research Station P.O. Box 68, FIN-80101 Joensuu, FINLAND mailto:pedro.aphalo@metla.fi http://cc.joensuu.fi/~aphalo/ fax: +358 13 251 4567 tel: +358 13 251 4406 ,,,^..^,,, ================================================================