The language that petkow complained about was my own, not mh's, so please don't use my words to attack him. I was glad that he agreed with me, and found the figure presentation as confusing as I did, but I think, with hindsight, that 'stupid' was a bit OTT, but it surely looks that way when you first encounter it, and neither delaro nor petkow have given a single reason for using it.
delaro I apologise if my words offended you, but you introduced an unhelpful confusing foreign convention, without explanation, and apparently with no regrets for having done so. If I can apologise to you for my somewhat intemperate language, perhaps you could apologise too for the unnecessary note of conflict that your strange looking post gave rise to?
HiPD - Perhaps offended but definitely disappointed. I would not expect similar immature kindergarden vocabulary from any member and especially not from one of your caliber. I don't believe you balanced your words and furthermore IMVHO you do not regret them thus your apology does not represent great value to myself. Regardless of that I shall accept it to avoid the escalation of this 'comma conflict' even if you think that what I've just done is so vulgar or undiplomatic or so not British or as you would say "stupid".
mh - Most of us know you usually leave very little (or don't leave at all) margin of error which I can't blame you for. Would you please note I take the responsibility for the comma confusion. Would you please note the error you are referring to (which appears to be an error in English speaking countries only) was not intentional and figure (obviously) was posted in good will. Hoisting foreign conventions in this case would be highly debatable in my eyes. Would you please note I perceive the foneforum as
Lingua franca forum where members (regardless different backgrounds) sharing their opinions will make mistakes whether you like it or not. I hope all the errors will be as little as the dot representing decimal separator.
My impression was (until now) that sharing would be the most important.
dlR