>Hi Louis, > >thanks for your advice. A little googling brought up this link: > >http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/cmosfaq.Numbers.html > >As it seems, there's no difference in English between >mathematical/business style and typographic style. > >Christoph
Hi Christoph, It's always a pleasure if I can help a bit. I refered to the Chicago Manual of Style because I understood you needed an independent and reliable source to help settle the case with your client. Giving you the answer I thought was right could not provide necessarily the "authority" your client asks for. (After all, who am I? And where does the info come from?). It often gets to the point, where a voice equals the voice of one other... so there is a need for a third and "authorized" voice to settle the case. Here comes the Chicago Manual of Style. It's like a dictionary. As for mathematical/business/typographic style, simply put, typography being the ultimate descriptive way of putting written ideas on paper, it's no surprise the rules of each are converging. Only, it might get to the point when you're going to need special spacing, non-breakable spaces, non-breakable hyphens (yes, that exists) or any other refinement only typography brings to us. All that said, not forgotting to thank you for your reply. It's appreciated. :) Louis > >_______________________________________________ >Scribus mailing list >Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
