On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Tom wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 22:31, Tom wrote: >> Is there a command or macro that converts a numeral to its English > language >> equivalent? For example, I would like to display Thirteen for 13. > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Page_numbering_in_words > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/33962/focus=34304 > (there is an attachment t-counting.tex in that thread) > > Mojca > > > The wiki includes the code for a macro, \numstr, that can be used to create > lower-case chapter numbers, but when I try to capitalize the first word, get > error messages. For example, the following errors out: > > Chapter \Word{\numstr{23}} > > As does > > Chapter \Words{\numstr{23}} > > but > > Chapter \numstr{23} > > Works as does > > Chapter \Words{twenty-three} > > However, the former returns twenty-three (all lower case) > and the latter returns Twenty-three (only the first part is in upper case) > > It's not clear from the Chicago Manual of Style if three should be > capitalized in this instance but, to my eye, it doesn't look right. Is there > a way to convert chapter numbers to text and select the desired > capitalization?
If you want every word to be capitalized, simply change one, two, three, etc in the source of \numstr to One, Two, Three. Aditya If I do that, they will always be in upper case. I would lose the option of having them in lower case. Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
