John R. Culleton wrote:
On Friday 30 December 2005 04:35 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
\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
Adam Lindsay wrote:
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}%
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
Hi John,
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:56:06 -0700, John R. Culleton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
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
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John R. Culleton wrote:
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
