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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