th nd and rd

th nd and rd

[John R. Culleton]

It is common to express certain numerals with the suffixes 
st, nd, rd, th,  
with the suffix in a smaller type and raised about .5em
eg:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th.

It is of course possible to cobble these expressions up in macros.
But it would be handy if they were built in to Context.  

Any thoughts?


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Re: th nd and rd

[Aditya Mahajan]

<--- On Dec 29, John R. Culleton wrote --->

> It is common to express certain numerals with the suffixes
> st, nd, rd, th,
> with the suffix in a smaller type and raised about .5em
> eg:
> 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th.
>
> It is of course possible to cobble these expressions up in macros.
> But it would be handy if they were built in to Context.
>
> Any thoughts?

Perhaps it is not too difficult to modify engord.sty 
(http://www.ctan.org/info?id=engord) from latex to work with context.

Aditya

Re: th nd and rd

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

Hi John,

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:56:06 -0700, John R. Culleton  
<john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:

> It is common to express certain numerals with the suffixes
> st, nd, rd, th,
> with the suffix in a smaller type and raised about .5em
> eg:
> 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th.
>
> It is of course possible to cobble these expressions up in macros.
> But it would be handy if they were built in to Context.
>
> Any thoughts?

I just do

\def\ST\high{st} etc. Is that unacceptable?

Best
Idris



>
>



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Re: th nd and rd

[Mojca Miklavec]

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John R. Culleton wrote:
> It is common to express certain numerals with the suffixes
> st, nd, rd, th,
> with the suffix in a smaller type and raised about .5em
> eg:
> 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th.
>
> It is of course possible to cobble these expressions up in macros.
> But it would be handy if they were built in to Context.

As usually, Hans already included (almost) that in the core :)
See the very end of lang-ger.tex and the definition of
\enordinaldaynumber. I don't know why there is \ordinalstr instead of
\highordinalstr used (in contrast to the Dutch one), but you can
(re)define it like:

\def\enordinalnumber#1%
  {#1\ifnum\lasttwodigits{#1}=11
     \highordinalstr{th}%
   \else\ifcase\lastdigit{#1}%
     \highordinalstr{th}%
   \or % 1
     \highordinalstr{st}%
   \or % 2
     \highordinalstr{nd}%
   \or % 3
     \highordinalstr{rd}%
   \else
     \highordinalstr{th}%
   \fi\fi}

And use it as:

\enordinalnumber{1}
\enordinalnumber{2}
\enordinalnumber{3}
\enordinalnumber{4}
\enordinalnumber{5}
\enordinalnumber{100}
...

Mojca

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Re: th nd and rd

[Hans Hagen]

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:56:06 -0700, John R. Culleton  
> <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
>
>> It is common to express certain numerals with the suffixes
>> st, nd, rd, th,
>> with the suffix in a smaller type and raised about .5em
>> eg:
>> 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th.
>>
>> It is of course possible to cobble these expressions up in macros.
>> But it would be handy if they were built in to Context.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
>
> I just do
>
> \def\ST\high{st} etc. Is that unacceptable?

\defineconversion[ordinal][\enordinaldaynumber]

\startitemize[ordinal,2*broad]
\item test
\item test
\item test
\item test
\item test
\stopitemize

Re: th nd and rd

[Hans Hagen]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

>As usually, Hans already included (almost) that in the core :)
>  
>
but you seem to be able to find that code faster than i can -)

Hans

Re: th nd and rd

[John R. Culleton]

On Friday 30 December 2005 04:35 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> \def\enordinalnumber#1%
>   {#1\ifnum\lasttwodigits{#1}=11
>      \highordinalstr{th}%
>    \else\ifcase\lastdigit{#1}%
>      \highordinalstr{th}%
>    \or % 1
>      \highordinalstr{st}%
>    \or % 2
>      \highordinalstr{nd}%
>    \or % 3
>      \highordinalstr{rd}%
>    \else
>      \highordinalstr{th}%
>    \fi\fi}
>
> And use it as:
>
> \enordinalnumber{1}
> \enordinalnumber{2}
> \enordinalnumber{3}
> \enordinalnumber{4}
> \enordinalnumber{5}
> \enordinalnumber{100}
> ...

It is stored now as part of my "standard macro pack" for Context.
Thanks to all. 
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Re: th nd and rd

[Adam Lindsay]

John R. Culleton wrote:
> On Friday 30 December 2005 04:35 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
>>\def\enordinalnumber#1%
>>  {#1\ifnum\lasttwodigits{#1}=11
>>     \highordinalstr{th}%
>>   \else\ifcase\lastdigit{#1}%
>>     \highordinalstr{th}%
>>   \or % 1
>>     \highordinalstr{st}%
>>   \or % 2
>>     \highordinalstr{nd}%
>>   \or % 3
>>     \highordinalstr{rd}%
>>   \else
>>     \highordinalstr{th}%
>>   \fi\fi}
>>
>>And use it as:
>>
>>\enordinalnumber{1}
>>\enordinalnumber{2}
>>\enordinalnumber{3}
>>\enordinalnumber{4}
>>\enordinalnumber{5}
>>\enordinalnumber{100}
>>...
> 
> 
> It is stored now as part of my "standard macro pack" for Context.
> Thanks to all. 

As I was just reminded by a British Telecom website (which confirmed 
that I was moving on the "13rd"), I'm used to two more exceptions 
(suggested as a patch):

\def\enordinaldaynumber#1%
   {#1\ifnum\lasttwodigits{#1}=11
      \highordinalstr{th}%
    \else\ifnum\lasttwodigits{#1}=12
      \highordinalstr{th}%
    \else\ifnum\lasttwodigits{#1}=13
      \highordinalstr{th}%
    \else\ifcase\lastdigit{#1}%
      \highordinalstr{th}%
    \or % 1
      \highordinalstr{st}%
    \or % 2
      \highordinalstr{nd}%
    \or % 3
      \highordinalstr{rd}%
    \else
      \highordinalstr{th}%
    \fi\fi\fi\fi}


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Re: th nd and rd

[Hans Hagen]

Adam Lindsay wrote:

> As I was just reminded by a British Telecom website (which confirmed 
> that I was moving on the "13rd"), I'm used to two more exceptions 
> (suggested as a patch):
>
> \def\enordinaldaynumber#1%
>   {#1\ifnum\lasttwodigits{#1}=11
>      \highordinalstr{th}%
>    \else\ifnum\lasttwodigits{#1}=12
>      \highordinalstr{th}%
>    \else\ifnum\lasttwodigits{#1}=13
>      \highordinalstr{th}%
>    \else\ifcase\lastdigit{#1}%
>      \highordinalstr{th}%
>    \or % 1
>      \highordinalstr{st}%
>    \or % 2
>      \highordinalstr{nd}%
>    \or % 3
>      \highordinalstr{rd}%
>    \else
>      \highordinalstr{th}%
>    \fi\fi\fi\fi}
>
ok, patched

Hans