Re: [NTG-context] th nd and rd

4 Jan 2006


      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}


-- 
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
  Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept.     atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk
  Lancaster University, InfoLab21        +44(0)1524/510.514
  Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK             Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: [NTG-context] th nd and rd

Adam Lindsay