* Spelling out chapter numbers for novels. @ 2013-10-09 19:27 john Culleton 2013-10-09 19:43 ` Marco Patzer 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: john Culleton @ 2013-10-09 19:27 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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 Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Spelling out chapter numbers for novels. 2013-10-09 19:27 Spelling out chapter numbers for novels john Culleton @ 2013-10-09 19:43 ` Marco Patzer 2013-10-09 20:14 ` john Culleton 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Marco Patzer @ 2013-10-09 19:43 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ntg-context [-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 531 bytes --] 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 [-- Attachment #1.2: Digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 490 bytes --] [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 485 bytes --] ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Spelling out chapter numbers for novels. 2013-10-09 19:43 ` Marco Patzer @ 2013-10-09 20:14 ` john Culleton 2013-10-09 20:24 ` Marco Patzer 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: john Culleton @ 2013-10-09 20:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ntg-context 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 Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Spelling out chapter numbers for novels. 2013-10-09 20:14 ` john Culleton @ 2013-10-09 20:24 ` Marco Patzer 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Marco Patzer @ 2013-10-09 20:24 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ntg-context [-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 245 bytes --] On 2013–10–09 john Culleton wrote: > 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? Words Marco [-- Attachment #1.2: Digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 490 bytes --] [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 485 bytes --] ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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