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

[Philip G. R. <phi...@un...>]

> 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´t 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!!)

Sounds like you need a Mexican version of babel.  It shouldn't be too hard
to do.  Although simply a Mexican option for Spanish babel would obviously
be better.

Cheers,  Phil Ratcliffe