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 23:22:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00b801cb1671$2c4efa40$84eceec0$@com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1006272230590.15958@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Tom wrote:
> 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?
If you want every word to be capitalized, simply change one, two, three,
etc in the source of \numstr to One, Two, Three.
Aditya
If I do that, they will always be in upper case. I would lose the option of
having them in lower case.
Tom Benjey
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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
2010-06-28 2:31 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-06-28 3:22 ` Tom [this message]
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