[Scribus] Large number separators, revisited

[Tom Hicks]

In message <4273ADD8.30001 at idirect.com>
          tjakabfy <tjakabfy at idirect.com> wrote:

> In Canada, eh!
> 
> Yes, this is the official way in Canada in accordance with Metric 
> guidelines.
> This avoids the confusion of the comma separators altogether.
> 
> Tom
> 
>
Its also what we learnd at school in the UK, as I thinks that there was
reconission that 100,000.45 didnt go to well with the other systems in
Europ which have the commas and full stops (periods if you are American)
reversed.

Another Tom


> Gregory Pittman wrote:
> > I just received a small freebie (American) medical publication that, 
> > to my surprise, displayed some large numbers thus:
> >
> > "...we do have a large amount of experience with more than 100 000 
> > patients treated -- in some cases, more than 1 000 000 patients treated."
> >
> > This was part of a transcript of an interview, so it was obviously the 
> > publisher's choice about how to depict this.  One advantage of spaces 
> > is that it eliminates the confusion with commas and periods used a 
> > sentence punctuation.
> >
> > (the poster formerly known as Greg)
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