[OS X TeX] %18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ?
Steffen Wolfrum
mactex_aa at st.estfiles.de
Tue Feb 5 10:45:24 CET 2008
I am not sure if I got your point correctly:
Am 05.02.2008 um 01:48 schrieb Eric Jablow:
> On Feb 4, 2008, at 6:01 PM, David Watson wrote:
>
>> I asked an Egyptian friend of mine in graduate school about this,
>> and his immediate response was that it should be placed on the
>> left. There may be some difference between Egyptian arabic and
>> other forms of arabic, but he didn't seem to make any distinction
>> of such a custom.
>
> Is the percent sign mirrored too? I'm guessing that it is replaced
> with Unicode U+066A, ARABIC PERCENT SIGN. See http://
> www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0600.pdf. Look at page 4 of that,
> marked as p. 50 in print.
In U+066A, ARABIC PERCENT SIGN the slash goes from bottom-left to top-
right.
So it is not mirrored ... or did you mean something different?
Steffen
More information about the macostex-archives
mailing list