Because the solution is a minor nuisance to invoke, I am certainly guilty of just hoping it won't "break." However, the solution character, non-breaking space, may be invoked via Character Map, alt-codes, or embedded as an html special character. In "real" typography, there is a "thin space" available which should be used.
I only point this out for other cases as obviously 3000 != 4750, and the issue here is not a thousand separator issue. ________________________________ From: Stephen Humphreys <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, June 10, 2010 8:25:09 AM Subject: [USMA:47636] RE: Measurement train wreck - or should this be wine? And herein is a problem when using spaces to seperate the thousands. (The other one is where a line is broken around a carriage return/line-feed) > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [USMA:47627] RE: Measurement train wreck > Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 21:37:52 -0400 > > > More likely it was a typesetting error, where "4 750ml bottles" was > intended. 4 x 750 ml - 3 liters. > > Carleton > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of James R. Frysinger > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 20:03 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:47621] Measurement train wreck > > > The July Consumer Reports issue (Consumer's Union, CU) features a blurb > on the inside back cover regarding boxed wine. This is the location in > the magazine that features labeling "gotchas". > > The one of interest here is for a wine box of Cabernet Sauvignon and the > label states "3L Box = 4,750 Bottles". The CU reply is "That's one big box". > > First, I suspected that the comma was actually a decimal mark, making > the meaning "4.750 Bottles". But if those are 750 mL bottles, only four > of them would be required to contain 3 L of wine. So, the company may > have used a comma as the decimal mark but also, perhaps, messed up their > division of (3 L)/(0.75 L). No brand name is given for this box of wine. > > Jim > > -- > James R. Frysinger > 632 Stony Point Mountain Road > Doyle, TN 38559-3030 > > (C) 931.212.0267 > (H) 931.657.3107 > (F) 931.657.3108 > ________________________________ Get a free e-mail account with Hotmail. Sign-up now.
