Brian Wilson wrote:
Thank you to the XeTeX community for the help with my last issue.
Over the last week I have learned how to change the paper size, make running
headers, make a table of contents as well as make gray scale text. If any
fellow newbies are reading this, the following site has been most helpful to
me. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
Currently I am working on a small document of Bible portions in the Lao
language. There are four things that I want to do with the verse numbers.
1 Superscript
2 grayscale
3 specify font
4 add a tiny space after the verse number and before the verse.
Can I do all of this with a newly created \vnum command? I have googled
about \newcommand until I am blue in the face. Succeeded in making a command
to do superscript and another command to do grayscale, but failed to make a
command containing both functions and so didn't proceed to the last two.
Hi Brian:
Try this:
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\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage[variant=us]{english}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setmainfont{Palatino}
\newfontfamily\versenumbers{Myriad Pro}
\newcommand\grayssnumbers[1]{\textsuperscript{\color{gray}#1}}
\newcommand\vnum[1]{{\versenumbers\grayssnumbers{#1}}\,}
\begin{document}
This is a test of the \vnum{234} command.
End of test.
\end{document}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
You can substitute fonts as desired.
HTH.
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