Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f19Ck1H03425 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:46:01 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f19Ck1d17582 . for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:46:01 +0100 Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f19Ck0712348 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:46:01 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C09296.419E0A80" Received: from mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.56]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA29927 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:46:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f19CjxM00631 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:45:59 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <12.15CAE3D3@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:45:53 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 488099 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:45:57 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16479 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:45:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20920 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:45:52 +0100 Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de (moutvdom00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.149]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f19Cjqu20504 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:45:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from [195.20.224.220] (helo=mrvdom04.kundenserver.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14RCvv-0008L5-00 for LATEX-L@urz.uni-heidelberg.de; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:45:51 +0100 Received: from manz-3e3645ae.pool.mediaways.net ([62.54.69.174] helo=istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de) by mrvdom04.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14RCvo-0003j1-00 for LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:45:45 +0100 Received: (from latex3@localhost) by istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) id NAA27741; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:44:31 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <200102082216.RAA12899@hilbert.math.albany.edu> Return-Path: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.4.1 X-Authentication-Warning: istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de: latex3 set sender to frank@mittelbach-online.de using -f Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: inputenc text (and/or math) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:44:31 +0100 Message-ID: <14979.58927.89134.512764@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Frank Mittelbach" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3769 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09296.419E0A80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hans Aberg writes: > I tend to think that there in a text mode for natural language alone, = there > should be no numbers allowed, only letters and punctuation marks. = Thus your > AW quote should be i don't quite agree. there are certainly schools that would like to bann numbers in a context like this but even if you spell out all such number = as text you still have the problem that you have to allow textual number, = or are you really proposing that a reference to a page or a figure or heading = has to be as "see figure seven.three"? and depending on the design such number might get quite a different = treatment to those being part of a math formula (eg they might be in old style or = they might be in the text font family or ...) so there are "textual digits" and there are "mathematical digits". frank ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09296.419E0A80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: inputenc text (and/or math)

Hans Aberg writes:

 > I tend to think that there in a text mode = for natural language alone, there
 > should be no numbers allowed, only letters = and punctuation marks. Thus your
 > AW quote should be

i don't quite agree. there are certainly schools that = would like to bann
numbers in a context like this but even if you spell = out all such number as
text you still have the problem that you have to = allow textual number, or are
you really proposing that a reference to a page or a = figure or heading has to
be as "see figure seven.three"?

and depending on the design such number might = get  quite a different treatment
to those being part of a math formula (eg they might = be in old style or they
might be in the text font family or ...)

so there are "textual digits" and there are = "mathematical digits".

frank

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