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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt: Page numbering in words for spanish
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:46:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50AFFCD4.2060102@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121123215028.7afca447@aga-netbook>

On 11/23/2012 9:50 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> Dnia 2012-11-22, o godz. 11:55:17
> Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> napisał(a):
>
>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Acidrums4 wrote:
>>>
>>> * 100 before 'millón' -- should that be 'cien millón', or 'ciento
>>> millón'? -> It should be 'cien millones'. 'Millones', plural for
>>> 'Millón'. Maybe it should be a variable for plurals for millions
>>> (the only plural used for numbers in spanish).
>>
>> Singular and plural don't always suffice.
>>
>> 1M: en milijon
>> 2M: dva milijona
>> 3/4M: [tri|štiri] milijone
>> 5M: pet milijonov
>
> Similarly for Polish (which is no surprise), so a more general mechanism
> might be a good idea.
>
> 1M: (jeden) milion
> 2/3/4M: dwa/trzy/cztery miliony
> 5/6/7/8/9M: pięć/sześć/siedem/osiem/dziewięć milionów
>
> 32M: trzydzieści dwa miliony
> 57M: pięćdziesiąt siedem milionów
>
> And similarly for thousands.

first we need working prototypes for several languages, then I can wrap 
it into some general mechanism. I think all languages are somewhat 
different so 'general' is 'sort of general'.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-23 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-21  9:08 Acidrums4
2012-11-21 10:26 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-21 11:25   ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-11-21 11:52     ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-21 12:28       ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-11-21 21:05     ` Acidrums4
2012-11-21 23:47       ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-11-22  0:03         ` Acidrums4
2012-11-22 10:55           ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-11-22 12:11             ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-11-23 20:50             ` Marcin Borkowski
2012-11-23 22:46               ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-11-23 23:09                 ` Alan BRASLAU
2012-11-22 10:04         ` Hans Hagen

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