[XeTeX] Roman Numerals as stylistic alternatives

[Tobias Schoel]

Hi,

if I understand correctly, that way the output still shows the letters 
or the deprecated unicode codepoints. It should be analog to medieval / 
lowercase numbers. E.g. it's still the number 123 it only uses different 
glyphs. So when I copypaste it, it shows the number 123 and not cxxiii.

This could be a very complex procedure, if applied to arbitrary numbers, 
but most times it can be reduced to low numbers.

Another idea:

the macro \roman{counter} does the complicated part of the job. Could 
one use the result of that macro (letters) and transform them to the 
desired output?

bye

Toscho

Am 18.06.2011 21:43, schrieb enrico.gregorio at univr.it:
>> Hi,
>>
>> you totally misunderstood my intentions. I don't want to use
>> neither Ⅰ,  Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ, … (u2160-u217f) nor I, II, III, IV, … (letters). I want
>> to use
>> something along "Henri {\fontchangingcommand 4} was a foobar king."
>>
>> Is \fontspec capable of doing this?
>
> Of course not, or maybe yes, but limited to numbers from 1 up to 12,
> via a proper mapping file. However, with the macros I gave you before,
> you can define
>
> \makeatletter
> \newcommand\ordinal[1]{\@UniRoman{#1}}
> \makeatother
>
> and write "Henri~\ordinal{4}". The tilde is for avoiding a line break. This will
> use the character corresponding to the number, if in the range 1–12, otherwise
> the number will be constructed from the Roman numerals.
>
> Ciao
> Enrico
>
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