Re: [NTG-context] thousand separator space
Thank you both.
On 22-11-2022 08:58, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
Am 21.11.22 um 23:08 schrieb Max Chernoff via ntg-context:
The TeXbook recommends that you wrap the comma in curly braces
$x = 1{,}000$
but there's probably a ConTeXt \setupxxx command that would have
the same
effect.
Use \digits:
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/digits
Hraban
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Re: [NTG-context] thousand separator space
Am 21.11.22 um 23:08 schrieb Max Chernoff via ntg-context:
The TeXbook recommends that you wrap the comma in curly braces
$x = 1{,}000$
but there's probably a ConTeXt \setupxxx command that would have the same
effect.
Use \digits:
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/digits
Hraban
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Re: [NTG-context] thousand separator space
Hi Jan,
> Why is there an additional space after the thousand separator in math mode?
Because something like
${\mathbb N} = \{1,2,3,4,\dots\}$
would look quite bad without any space between the numbers.
(The technical reason is that commas have the math class \mathpunct,
meaning that TeX automatically adds a space after them. Adding the
braces converts it to \mathord, which doesn't add any spaces.)
> And what can I do to get rid of the additional space?
The TeXbook recommends that you wrap the comma in curly braces
$x = 1{,}000$
but there's probably a ConTeXt \setupxxx command that would have the same
effect.
Many European languages use the comma as a decimal separator, so I'd
generally recommend using a thinspace (\,) instead of a comma as a
thousands separator to avoid confusion.
Thanks,
-- Max
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[NTG-context] thousand separator space
Dear list, Two silly short questions. Why is there an additional space after the thousand separator in math mode? And what can I do to get rid of the additional space? \starttext 1,000 \blank $1,000$ \stoptext Kind regards, Jan Willem Flamma ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___
