[tei-council] datatype of @n in att.global

[Sebastian Rahtz]

James Cummings wrote:
> It has a space, which makes it two numbers or labels, and the definition
> says it should have one.  Space is a magical thing which although it is a
> character just like others has this weird semantics of creating two
> separate things in people's minds when you put it in the middle of a string
> of alphanumeric characters.
>   
I reject this spurious notion entirely. Were we in France, we'd write
1000 as 1{tiny space}000.

what about "1,000"? a number or not?

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