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On 2007-03-26, at 17:39.0, cormullion@mac.com wrote:

> is it possible to adjust options so as to get page numbering done in
> words? Eg
>
> "one" "two" ..... "eighty-nine" ... "three hundred and sixty seven" ?

I can't see how to do this in ConText. I can see that the first task  
- converting an integer to a string - could be done by a macro or  
external command, such as Wolfgang's zahl2string.... But how to do  
the second job - feed in a 'raw' pagenumber and output and print a  
converted one?