At 09:17 PM 11/17/2002 -0800, Idris S Hamid wrote:
Dear Hans,\newif\ifreversesectionnumbers
I have a serious problem:
In Classical Arabic numerals are pronounced from single digits to tens to
hundreds, etc., e.g.
1234== four, thirty, two hundred, and a thousand. This makes transcribing
Arabic numerals easy: they run the same as in roman languages. So in my otp's
(Omega-Gamma) there is a command to transcribe any left-to-right L-R string
numeral into an L-R string in Arabic (so I don't have to type the numeral
backwards in the L-R transcription; i.e., typing 1234 in L-R comes out the
same in R-L).
But there is a complicated scenario: For purposes of sectioning, we get (as in
a TOC) for e.g. Section 3.12
in roman it should be (L-R):
3.12-------------------------------------------<page no.>
in Arabic it should be (R-L):
<page no.>-------------------------------------------12.3
Now my Gamma configuration is such that everything is flipped R-L except for
numerals, so I _actually_ get
<page no.>-------------------------------------------3.12
in my Arabic sections and TOC. Is there any way to reverse the order of
subsections so that subsection 3.12 comes out as 12.3? I assume there is some
code that commands ConTeXt to print the section number, followed by the
subsection number. Can that be hacked to reverse the sequence for Semetic
documents (Arabic and Hebrew)? So we could have an option say,
[style=semetic]. I did something similar in EDMAC once for Arabic critical
editions.
\unprotected \def\@@longsectionnumber#1%
{\ifreversesectionnumbers
\@@shortsectionnumber{#1}%
\ifnum\countervalue{\??se\previoussection{#1}}>\zerocount
.\csname\previoussection{#1}\c!nummer\endcsname
\fi
\else
\ifnum\countervalue{\??se\previoussection{#1}}>\zerocount
\csname\previoussection{#1}\c!nummer\endcsname.%
\fi
\@@shortsectionnumber{#1}%
\fi}
\reversesectionnumberstrue
\chapter{Well, let's see}
\section{If}
\section{This}
\section{Works}
but i assume you want a more sophisticated mechanism; should this be a key in \setuphead?
Hans
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