On 2007-03-26, at 19:16.0, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:39:38 +0100 cormullion@mac.com wrote:

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is it possible to adjust options so as to get page numbering done in words?

I don't think there is something like this in ConTeXt.

You can try to make somthing by yourself and start with the zahl2string [1] package for LaTeX and adapt it to ConTeXt. This should be not such a big problem, you need only to replace the \newcommand defintions with \def and replace the german texts with english ones or whatever language you like.

Thanks - it does look quite complicated! But this is a good start...

On 2007-03-26, at 19:40.0, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:39:38 +0100 cormullion@mac.com wrote:

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is it possible to adjust options so as to get page numbering done in words? Eg

"one" "two" ..... "eighty-nine" ... "three hundred and sixty seven" ?

Or does this require some more work/code?

I converted the macro to the plain TeX format. The only thing you need to do now is to change the german text you own.

thanks - looks like it's do-able, perhaps!

\defineconversion [numstring][\numstr] \setuppagenumbering[conversion=numstring]

On 3/28/07, cormullion@mac.com cormullion@mac.com wrote:

On 2007-03-26, at 17:39.0, cormullion@mac.com wrote:

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is it possible to adjust options so as to get page numbering done in words? Eg

"one" "two" ..... "eighty-nine" ... "three hundred and sixty seven" ?

I can't see how to do this in ConText. I can see that the first task

• converting an integer to a string - could be done by a macro or

external command, such as Wolfgang's zahl2string.... But how to do the second job - feed in a 'raw' pagenumber and output and print a converted one?

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Thanks, Wolfgang and Zhichu. I've managed to get it working. The only problem now is to work out how to modify the original macros. Numbering is OK up to 20. Then we get onetwenty, twotwenty, threetwenty (I did find out how to remove the 'und'). So that's another project!

thanks again

On 2007-03-28, at 16:49.0, Zhichu Chen wrote:

I modified Wolfgang's macro as the attached file. But I'm really not a native American, so there must be some special rules that I've ignored. Wish you good luck.

Yes - this works great now. Thank you for sorting out the TeX code, which is like no other language I know ;-). I've changed only one spelling (fourty -> forty) and the rest looks perfect.

thanks again!

Hello,

I have just noticed this thread (I cannot really catch up reading all the stuff here) and remembered that I have some really old files lying somewhere on my computer.

The file dates back to the time when Brooks Moses & Hans have implemented \defineconversion [sl] [a] [\sloveniancharacters] for me, so I needed to make sure that I understood the concept.

I didn't review the content, I have just added a small demo at the end.

On 4/16/07, Robin Kirkham wrote:

Hi all,

There are still a few problems with \numstr when you get beyond the hundreds. Perhaps this is unlikely when it is a page number, but I was interested in using this macro for contracts, where an amount of money is often written out in words.

\input numstr.tex \starttext \numstr{-1}\par \numstr{0}\par \numstr{101}\par \numstr{1001}\par \numstr{1000001}\par \numstr{1200021} \stoptext

This produces output:

null null one hundred and one one thousand one one millionone one million two hundred thousand twenty-one

I didn't follow the thread, but the problems might result from the fact that it was translated from a german counter rather than written from scratch following some rules.

which should be:

minus one zero one hundred and one one thousand and one one million and one

My example fails on this one, but I guess that it could be fixed if you tell me the rule to distinguish the two cases.

one million, two hundred thousand and twenty-one

In English, the tens/units (if not zero) should be preceded by "and" if the number exceeds 100 (so 101 is correct in the above output). This applies whether the tens/units is truly tens/units, or is a thousands or millions multiplier (120000 = "one hundred and twenty thousand").

The use of a comma after millions and sometimes thousands is helpful but not essential, and it only appears in certain cases. I'll have to think a bit more about a rule for that!

The use of a hyphen between tens and units ("twenty-one") is not incorrect but is nowadays probably regarded as a little old-fashioned (but personally, I like it).

Best,

Robin

I have used this page as a source: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/numbers/cardinal

Mojca

Note 1: If the functionality/documentation can be polished out nicely, the core or m-something might be a better place for such a module than third-party modules. But I guess that Hans would want to split this into *.mkii and *.mkiv anyway, so I would probably need to write the lua implementation for it before asking for inclusion ;)

Note 2: there are some switches which would need to be implemented in a higher level user interface. Note that the German counter might be useless since I have never finished it.