From: john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Spelling out chapter numbers for novels.
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 16:14:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131009161404.4625c296@localb.wexfordpress.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131009194349.GX18324@homerow>
On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 21:43:49 +0200
Marco Patzer <lists@homerow.info> wrote:
> On 2013–10–09 john Culleton wrote:
>
> > It is now fashionable in the U.S. (and maybe elsewhere) to use a
> > spelled-out chapter number in novels.
> >
> > […]
> >
> > I wonder if there is a function in Context or elsewhere that does
> > this for me?
>
> \setuplabeltext
> [chapter=Chapter\nobreakspace]
>
> \setuphead
> [chapter]
> [conversion=words]
>
> \starttext
> \startchapter [title=Alpha]
> \stopchapter
>
> \startchapter [title=Beta]
> \stopchapter
>
> \startchapter [title=Gamma]
> \stopchapter
> \stoptext
>
> Marco
Very interesting. I have one further problem. The accepted style is to
use an initial cap as in
Twenty-three
and not
twenty-three
Is there a cure for that also?
--
John Culleton
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