[texhax] question

Philip TAYLOR P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Fri Jul 9 16:17:41 CEST 2004


I suspect this is exactly what Babel is supposed to
do in these circumstances!  Doesn't Spain use the
decimal comma (like France, Germany, ...) rather than
the decimal point ?

Cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_point

Philip TAYLOR
--------
Manuel Reta wrote:

> I have been using Latex, through MikteX, since some years ago. It works 
> great.
>  
> However, reacently, I updated to the new version of MikteX (ver. 2.4), 
> and I am getting problems when using the option Spanish with the Babel 
> package. One of the problems is that when I put any decimal number, 
> let's say 3.14159, I get in the final document 3,14159 (instead a 
> decimal point, I get a comma).
>  
> Can somebody tell me what can I do to solve this problem?  Am I doing 
> something wrong?
>  
> Thanks in advance
>  
>  
> Dr. Manuel Reta
> manuelreta at ieee.org
>  
>  
> Unidad Academica de Ingeniría Eléctrica
> Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
> Zacatecas, Zac.
> 
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