Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

Hi John,

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:56:06 -0700, John R. Culleton wrote:

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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.

Any thoughts?

I just do

\def\ST\high{st} etc. Is that unacceptable?

\defineconversion[ordinal][\enordinaldaynumber] \startitemize[ordinal,2*broad] \item test \item test \item test \item test \item test \stopitemize

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

As usually, Hans already included (almost) that in the core :)

but you seem to be able to find that code faster than i can -) Hans

John R. Culleton wrote:

On Friday 30 December 2005 04:35 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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\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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-