[texhax] Superscript ordinal indicators in dates?

[Joel C. Salomon]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Philip TAYLOR
(Ret'd)<P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
> Donald Arseneau wrote:
>> Yes.  For nth.sty the form is
>>
>> \usepackage[super]{nth}
>> ..
>> \nth{\day}
>
> A not-entirely frivolous question : does it honour Babel language settings ?

Not an easy task, especially for Slavic languages: see "Ordinal
Numbers in Various Languages" on Typophile at
<http://typophile.com/node/42577>.  Some languages have different
suffixes for singular & plural, or for gender, or for case(!).

In the restricted sense of dates, one hopes that all days of the month
have the same number & gender, but case might still be an issue.

—Joel