Re: Converting counters?

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Hi Chen,

You could use \chinesenumber from font-chi.tex

Wolfgang

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Zhichu Chen <zhichu.chen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to convert the counter to Chinese character one on one, like
> 0->a, 1->b, etc., so 10 will be "ba" (I use a, b, c, . . . to denote the
> Chinese
> glyphs which makes more sense for you). I used some codes like:
> ======================================================
> \def\ChineseZero {o}
> \def\ChineseOne  {a}
> \def\ChineseTwo  {b}
> \def\ChineseThree{c}
> \def\ChineseFour {d}
> \def\ChineseFive {e}
> \def\ChineseSix  {f}
> \def\ChineseSeven{g}
> \def\ChineseEight{h}
> \def\ChineseNine {i}
>
> \unexpanded\def\zhnumber
>   {\bgroup
>    \catcode`\0=\active \uccode`\~=`\0 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseZero}%
>    \catcode`\1=\active \uccode`\~=`\1 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseOne}%
>    \catcode`\2=\active \uccode`\~=`\2 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseTwo}%
>    \catcode`\3=\active \uccode`\~=`\3 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseThree}%
>    \catcode`\4=\active \uccode`\~=`\4 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseFour}%
>    \catcode`\5=\active \uccode`\~=`\5 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseFive}%
>    \catcode`\6=\active \uccode`\~=`\6 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseSix}%
>    \catcode`\7=\active \uccode`\~=`\7 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseSeven}%
>    \catcode`\8=\active \uccode`\~=`\8 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseEight}%
>    \catcode`\9=\active \uccode`\~=`\9 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseNine}%
>    \loggingall
>    \dozhnumber }
>
> \def\stripunwantedspaces{}
>
> \def\dozhnumber#1%
>   {\expandafter\scantokens\expandafter
>         {\detokenize{#1\stripunwantedspaces}}\egroup}
> ======================================================
> It works fine with \zhnumber{15}, it gives "ae" which is exactly what I
> want.
> But it won't work in the following situation:
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> \newcount\tcpageno
> \advance\tcpageno15
> \zhnumber{\number\tcpageno}
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> I know it's not weird, I just don't know how to expand the counter to
> number.
>
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Chen
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