decimal separator not recognized

[atlanta]

The dot as decimal tab - to align numbers - seems to be hard-wired into the program. If it were configurable, Atlantis could be used for invoices and other documents that follow other rules used in Europe and other countries.

[Robert]

With right-aligned paragraphs, the numbers align correctly along the decimal marker in Atlantis:

[Robert]

Hi,
Attached “Aligning Numbers.docx” was created in Atlantis.
All the paragraphs are left-aligned. Each paragraph includes a tab stop between the text and the numbers. This tab stop has the following values:



As you can see, the numbers are vertically aligned along the decimal marker, no matter which symbol is used:



HTH.
Cheers,
Robert

[atlanta]

Hi Robert,
not arguing your example, but I think there are good reasons why Atlantis features decimal tabs, to cover real world examples like the attached jpg. Change these tabs from right-aligned to decimal and you immediately see the advantages of decimal tabs over right-aligned.

You could argue, of course, that comma-cases are too rare an exception to warrant their handling by Atlantis. However, when looking at the additional downloads
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/downloads.htm
you'll notice that all of them require comma-decimals.

When dealing with international customers, you could form a rule (to build into Atlantis?):
For languages other than English, the decimal separator is almost certain to be a comma. For remaining countries, the business language is (mostly) English anyway. In other words, if the decimal separator would default to comma for non-English languages, we were able to even mix-format a document to cover 90% of user scenarios.

[Robert]

What about attached “Aligning Numbers (2).docx”? It uses decimal tab stops. The decimal markers are aligned:

[atlanta]

Yep.
Now do it for comma-decimals instead of dot-decimals and we're back to my orginal request.

[Robert]

Right. Let’s hope this gets corrected in the next update.