Re: [NTG-context] Converting counters?

1 Apr 2008

      Yes, only I don't need that complex. I mean \chinesenumber{123} will give
"one hundred and twenty-three" but all I want is "one two three." Besides,
I don't like to copy such long codes since I really don't want to load
font-chi.tex
which gives weird spacing problems while typesetting Chinese along with
English. Anyway, I'd love to learn something rather than to use something.

Thanks.

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
...
Hi Chen,
You could use \chinesenumber from font-chi.tex
Wolfgang
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Zhichu Chen  wrote:
...
Hi,
I'm trying to convert the counter to Chinese character one on one, like
0->a, 1->b, etc., so 10 will be "ba" (I use a, b, c, . . . to denote the
Chinese
glyphs which makes more sense for you). I used some codes like:
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\def\ChineseZero {o}
\def\ChineseOne  {a}
\def\ChineseTwo  {b}
\def\ChineseThree{c}
\def\ChineseFour {d}
\def\ChineseFive {e}
\def\ChineseSix  {f}
\def\ChineseSeven{g}
\def\ChineseEight{h}
\def\ChineseNine {i}
\unexpanded\def\zhnumber
  {\bgroup
   \catcode`\0=\active \uccode`\~=`\0 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseZero}%
   \catcode`\1=\active \uccode`\~=`\1 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseOne}%
   \catcode`\2=\active \uccode`\~=`\2 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseTwo}%
   \catcode`\3=\active \uccode`\~=`\3 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseThree}%
   \catcode`\4=\active \uccode`\~=`\4 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseFour}%
   \catcode`\5=\active \uccode`\~=`\5 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseFive}%
   \catcode`\6=\active \uccode`\~=`\6 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseSix}%
   \catcode`\7=\active \uccode`\~=`\7 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseSeven}%
   \catcode`\8=\active \uccode`\~=`\8 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseEight}%
   \catcode`\9=\active \uccode`\~=`\9 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseNine}%
   \loggingall
   \dozhnumber }
\def\stripunwantedspaces{}
\def\dozhnumber#1%
  {\expandafter\scantokens\expandafter
        {\detokenize{#1\stripunwantedspaces}}\egroup}
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It works fine with \zhnumber{15}, it gives "ae" which is exactly what I
want.
But it won't work in the following situation:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
\newcount\tcpageno
\advance\tcpageno15
\zhnumber{\number\tcpageno}
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I know it's not weird, I just don't know how to expand the counter to
number.
Thank you in advance.
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Best Regards
Chen
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