Am 07.04.2014 um 21:18 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez :

On 04/07/2014 08:59 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Am 07.04.2014 um 20:45 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez:

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[...] I cannot get either Greeknumerals or greeknumerals working in PDF bookmarks.

\defineconversionset[cs][n,G,g][n]

Many thanks for your help, Wolfgang.

Since Romannumerals and romannumerals (or Characters and characters) are required, I thought it would be consistent to use Greeknumerals and greeknumerals. But I was obviously wrong.

This could be a bug because there shouldn’t be a difference between the two conversion names. Wolfgang

On 07 Apr 2014, at 23:24, Otared Kavian wrote:

Maybe not, since Roman numerals i, ii, iii, iv, etc correspond really to the way Romans used to write numbers, while Greek numerals \alpha, \beta, \gamma, \delta, etc are rather our modern way of numbering items, analogous to the case one would say a), b), c), d) etc. Would Thomas Schmitz give us some insight?

In fact, I was wondering what “Greeknumerals” would translate to. The most common system used in antiquity is the “Milesian” system: α=1, β=2 etc., but 6 is expressed by ς; ι=10; ρ=100, with two archaic letters as 90 and 900; this is used in most papyri. There are other systems in use (especially in inscriptions), they involve special characters which most fonts don’t have. The simple system α=1 up to ω=24 is used to number the books in the Homeric epics, so it also has ancient precedents. If we want to be nitpicking, it shouldn’t be called “Greeknumerals,” but rather “Greekalphanumericalconversion,” which sounds like a really snappy, memorable way to express it, don’t you agree? So: this is just the historical and philological aspect, Greeknumerals will make sense to most users. All best Thomas

Thanks Thomas and Wolfgang for your attention. Actually the issue with the name of conversions exist also with Persiannumerals, which in ConTeXt results in the so called « Abjad numerals », instead of resulting in the use of Persian digits (or Eastern Arabic digits). Best regards: OK On 8 avr. 2014, at 05:09, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Am 07.04.2014 um 23:24 schrieb Otared Kavian :

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On 7 avr. 2014, at 21:25, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Am 07.04.2014 um 21:18 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez : […]

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Since Romannumerals and romannumerals (or Characters and characters) are required, I thought it would be consistent to use Greeknumerals and greeknumerals. But I was obviously wrong.

This could be a bug because there shouldn’t be a difference between the two conversion names.

Maybe not, since Roman numerals i, ii, iii, iv, etc correspond really to the way Romans used to write numbers, while Greek numerals \alpha, \beta, \gamma, \delta, etc are rather our modern way of numbering items, analogous to the case one would say a), b), c), d) etc.

I’m speaking about the different results when you use “G” or “Greeknumerals” as name for the conversion in \defineconversionset, while the first works in bookmarks the second doesn’t work even though there is no difference between both names.

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