At 10:52 PM 9/5/2001 +0200, Eckhart Guth�hrlein wrote:
>At 18:09 05.09.2001 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>>PS. For the real hackers among us: one can swap comma's and periods in 
>>math by saying
>>
>>\definemathpunctuation . mathcomma  textperiod
>>\definemathpunctuation , mathperiod textcomma
>
>Why should you? Well, I could imagine an existing input file with the 
>wrong decimal sign, which could be changed in this way, provided all 
>numbers are in math mode. If it could be of use for a normal user: What 
>are you thinking of?

converting non continental numbers into continental ones: 1,000 => 1.000

but for that purpose, there is already \digits

Hans
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