From: "Tom" <Tom@tuxedo-press.com>
To: "'mailing list for ConTeXt users'" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Converting numerals to text
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:48:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00ae01cb1653$3c922b20$b5b68160$@com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim3hxIy0NsyaC5YGccR9Qs3Kg3pqr46TDmZCRz_@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 22:31, Tom wrote:
> Is there a command or macro that converts a numeral to its English
language
> equivalent? For example, I would like to display Thirteen for 13.
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Page_numbering_in_words
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/33962/focus=34304
(there is an attachment t-counting.tex in that thread)
Mojca
The wiki includes the code for a macro, \numstr, that can be used to create
lower-case chapter numbers, but when I try to capitalize the first word, get
error messages. For example, the following errors out:
Chapter \Word{\numstr{23}}
As does
Chapter \Words{\numstr{23}}
but
Chapter \numstr{23}
Works as does
Chapter \Words{twenty-three}
However, the former returns twenty-three (all lower case)
and the latter returns Twenty-three (only the first part is in upper case)
It's not clear from the Chicago Manual of Style if three should be
capitalized in this instance but, to my eye, it doesn't look right. Is there
a way to convert chapter numbers to text and select the desired
capitalization?
Tom Benjey
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-27 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-26 20:31 Tom
2010-06-26 23:05 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-06-27 23:48 ` Tom [this message]
2010-06-28 2:31 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-06-28 3:22 ` Tom
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