Great feature, comes in very handy for someone like me who handles large lists with price information.
How do I make it respect the dot as thousands separator?
I tried formatting the paragraphs with languages from the Euro-zone, but that didn't help.
Any way to get Atlantis to comply with Windows regional settings?
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If you use the dot as “dot as thousands separator”, which symbol do you use as “decimal marker”?
Now here is from Digit grouping
Now here is from Digit grouping
Note that most online and offline basic calculators do not “respect the dot as thousands separator”. Only some “scientific” calculators accept dots as thousands separator. But even then, they give you results with spaces as thousands separator. For example, if you enter “1.000.000.000/2” at Scientific Calculator, you get “500000000” or “500 000 000” as a result. And not “500.000.000”.The convention for digit group separators varies but usually seeks to distinguish the delimiter from the decimal mark. Typically, English-speaking countries employ commas as the delimiter—10,000—and other European countries employ periods or spaces: 10.000 or 10 000. Because of the confusion that can result in international documents, the withdrawn SI/ISO 31-0 standard advocates the use of spaces[12] and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry advocate the use of a "thin space" in "groups of three".[13][14] Within the United States, the American Medical Association's widely-followed AMA Manual of Style also calls for a thin space.[11] In some online encoding environments (for example, ASCII-only) a thin space is not practical or available, in which case a regular word space or no delimiter are the alternatives. The Metrication Board proposed this system for the United Kingdom and, while it is not universally adopted, it is standard within the country's construction industry.
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Exceptions to digit grouping[edit]
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures states that "when there are only four digits before or after the decimal marker, it is customary not to use a space to isolate a single digit".[13] Likewise, some manuals of style state that thousands separators should not be used in normal text for numbers from 1000 to 9999 inclusive where no decimal fractional part is shown (in other words, for four-digit whole numbers), whereas others use thousands separators, and others use both. For example, APA style stipulates a thousands separator for "most figures of 1,000 or more" except for page numbers, binary digits, temperatures, etc.
There are always common-sense exceptions to digit grouping, such as years, postal codes and ID numbers of predefined nongrouped format, which style guides usually point out.
It's a tricky issue, I know. As many approaches to solving it as there are programs out there.
A very common fit-all attempt is to read out the system's Windows regional settings. As an option or by default. Debatable if that's the best solution, I admit.
Nothing to worry about, though. I consider it a bonus feature, definitely not a core function for a word processor. Plenty of 3rd party tools that handle it nicely.
Can't hurt to ask, I figured, there might have been an easy solution, an ini-tweak or whatever, something that also covers the decimal tabs. Off to another feature request.
20.800,50 equals 20,800.50 in the US.
A very common fit-all attempt is to read out the system's Windows regional settings. As an option or by default. Debatable if that's the best solution, I admit.
Nothing to worry about, though. I consider it a bonus feature, definitely not a core function for a word processor. Plenty of 3rd party tools that handle it nicely.
Can't hurt to ask, I figured, there might have been an easy solution, an ini-tweak or whatever, something that also covers the decimal tabs. Off to another feature request.
Comma. It's exactly the other way round in many countries:Robert wrote:If you use the dot as “dot as thousands separator”, which symbol do you use as “decimal marker”?
20.800,50 equals 20,800.50 in the US.