Re: [MiKTeX] Re: dots and commas in math mode

[Juan A. N. <jua...@gm...>]

Hi Alan,

On 10/13/05, Alan Cibils <cib...@ya...> wrote:
> Well, i can tell you that in Argentina we use the coma as a decimal
> separator, and the point to separate thousands. As far as I know, most
> Latin American countries use that notation as well. Maybe Mexico, because
> of its proximity to the US, is different, I don=B4t know.

Thank's for pointing that out. Now I know a bit more :-)

Yes, for some reason we use in Mexico the "english" dot notation for
decimal separator and it looks really odd to us to have commas there..
So this is usually the second most common problem that we have with
the defaults of babel's spanish.

The first most common problem is that we also tend to use "Tabla"
instead of "Cuadro" as the translation for "Table"... The author of
babel's spanish dislikes this a lot, and he usually get's a bit angry
when we ask how to change this (hope he's not reading this ;-) ) but
it is because he also has a good explanation of why "Cuadro" should be
the preffered option.. Anyway, after so much pressure (mostly from
mexican people) he now accepts that the tradition might be different
in different countries, and how to change the default "Cuadro" to
"Tabla" is now explained somewhere in the CervanTeX FAQ...

I am going a bit offtopic now so maybe this a good point to finish my
message.. (remember this is not even an "english LaTeX" mailing list,
but is intended for MiKTeX related questions and problems!!)

--
juan antonio navarro perez
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~navarroj