I'm writing a report in a language that uses decimal commas. In some cases that clashes with commas used for punctuation, causing hard to read text, e.g.:
for $x_i \in [-1,5, 1,5]$
.
Is there a way to make this more readable?
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Sign up to join this communityI'm writing a report in a language that uses decimal commas. In some cases that clashes with commas used for punctuation, causing hard to read text, e.g.:
for $x_i \in [-1,5, 1,5]$
.
Is there a way to make this more readable?
If you're using the comma as decimal separator, then you should consider using the semi-colon for the interval separator, it will be more readable:
$x_i\in[-1{,}5;1{,}5]$
(Instead of typing 1{,}5
, you can also use the icomma
package as suggested by egreg or \num
as suggested by Werner.)
\,
before the semi-colon. To my eye, it improves even further the readability of the formula, but depending on the language you're using, it might be against the rules.
– Philippe Goutet
Jul 26 '11 at 19:04
\usepackage{icomma}
...
for $x_{i}\in[-1,5, 1,5]$.
Notice the space after the comma where you want it to act as a punctuation symbol.
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– PlasmaBinturong
May 22 '20 at 17:34
The siunitx
package provides a general way of treating numbers and their decimal symbols. However, you have to explicitly encompass the numbers with \num{...}
. For example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[decimalsymbol=comma]{siunitx}
\begin{document}
This is a range $x_i \in [\num{-1,5},\num{1,5}]$.
\end{document}
would produce
You could try \;
or \,
or ~
as space (instead of " "):
$x_i \in [-1,5,\;1\,1~1,5]$
and use a semicolon for the interval separator (as already suggested by Philippe Goutet).
\[
and\]
for the brackets, are you? – egreg Jul 26 '11 at 17:54