On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:29:14AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Dekel> Hebrew is written from Right to Left. However, numbers are
> Dekel> written from Left to Right, so if you type "abc 123 def" [a..f
> Dekel> are Hebrew letters] then the display should be "fed 123 cba".
>
> Why not use directly a formula inset? As I already noted, numbers
> should be typeset in math mode in (La)TeX. While is is not obvious
> with default fonts, where numbers look identical with math fonts and
> text font, it is really necessary when using something like euler
> fonts (special math fonts), with which you would not like "123" to
> look different from "x > 123".
But if your document doesn't contain math formulae, you shouldn't put the
numbers in math-mode. Even if the documents contains formulae, there are
cases where you don't want to put numbers in math-mode (for example, a year
number, or a number in emphasized text).
