Am 2008-01-31 um 16:08 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid: >> I have often seen (in arabic newpapers) the percentage sign set left >> to the number "% 18". >> Recently I read an article (http://sehstoerung.sonance.net/pdfs/ >> TitusNemeth_dissertation.pdf) that calls this "... the incorrect >> placement of the percentage sign". >> >> Any native arabic speaker out there? Is it %18 or 18% ?? > > It really depends on where you live. In Persian, 18% is common, among > Arabs, %18. Both languages are left-to-right, but there is more > than one > convention for dealing with mathematical directionality. > > Some of these issues are still being worked about in the Arabic-script > world. > > These subtlties need to be addressed for proper high-level handling of > Arabic-script in ConTeXt/mkiv.
Hm, reminds me of conventions where you place currency symbols - depending on if you live in a economist/accountant surrounding... Do you think some automated handling of such is possible at all? I know nothing about Arabic script, of course... Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
