On 18 Feb 97 at 15:12, Hans Aberg wrote: > For example, with the numbers, it is so that all Swedish numbers _should_ > be typeset with a comma like "3,1415..", and not "3.1415..", as in English. In English one could use either 1\,234.567 or 1,234.567, or maybe 1234.567, or even 1\,234{\cdot}567, etc. So "format" for numbers changes both within and between languages... Pedro. =============================================================== Pedro J. Aphalo Finnish Forest Research Institute Joensuu Research Station P.O. Box 68, FIN-80101 Joensuu, FINLAND mailto:[log in to unmask] http://cc.joensuu.fi/~aphalo/ fax: +358 13 251 4567 tel: +358 13 251 4406 ,,,^..^,,, ================================================================