James Hatridge wrote: > Hi Christoph et al... > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 01:02, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > >>just a little question about correct English typography of numbers for >>those with eperience in the field. >> >>It's common use to separate triple digits in numbers > or = 1000 either >>with a comma (English) or a dot (most other languages). >> >>However, this is incorrect, at least in German typography, where you >>should use 1000, 10 000, 100 000, 1 Million etc. > > > This came up in a Berlin math class one time. In the US, England, and one > other small country (don't remember who), the correct way is 10,000.00 all > other lands do it 10.000,00.
At least in France, the use of the dot as a separator for thousands (or three digit groups in general in numbers) has been deprecated for quite a long time. A non breaking space is now used instead. In other countries of course YMMV... :) The comma vs devimal point proble in spreadsheet issue should be handled by the system's locale settings, not what's stored in the speadsheet IMO. But I suppose that's application dependant (I don't use spreadsheets much). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 256 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050412/9c9b3a2e/attachment.pgp
