[Scribus] Large number separators, revisited

tjakabfy tjakabfy
Sat Apr 30 18:10:00 CEST 2005


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

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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