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

[<dar...@gm...>]

Well, "Tablas" is also used in Argentina... at least in physics.

On 10/14/05, Philip G. Ratcliffe <phi...@un...> wrote:
> > 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, mos=
t
> > > 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!!)
>
> Sounds like you need a Mexican version of babel.  It shouldn't be too har=
d
> to do.  Although simply a Mexican option for Spanish babel would obviousl=
y
> be better.
>
> Cheers,  Phil Ratcliffe
>
>
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