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From: john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Spelling out chapter numbers for novels.
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 15:27:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131009152718.2c21535c@localb.wexfordpress.net> (raw)


It is now fashionable in the U.S. (and maybe elsewhere) to use a
spelled-out chapter number in novels. Not finding a function to convert
from a number register to a text string I created a brute force file
that looks like this:
------------------------------
\def\chapstring{\ifcase\currentheadnumber\or
One\or
Two\or
Three\or
Four\or
Five\or
Six\or
Seven\or
Eight\or
Nine\or
Ten\or
...
Ninety-eight\or
Ninety-nine\else
One hundred\fi}
--------------------------------

This file enables authors to rearrange chapters without worrying
about renumbering the chapters since it depends on \currentheadnumber.

I wonder if there is a function in Context or elsewhere that does this
for me?

If not, anyone who wants the complete file can write me for a copy. It
might save you ten minutes or so :<)

-- 
John Culleton
Wexford Press
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http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html
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             reply	other threads:[~2013-10-09 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-09 19:27 john Culleton [this message]
2013-10-09 19:43 ` Marco Patzer
2013-10-09 20:14   ` john Culleton
2013-10-09 20:24     ` Marco Patzer

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