[texhax] Counters as ordinal numbers

[VAFA KHALIGHI]

Thanks a lot. For all the replies. I wanted to do do this for Persian since
it is a bit different to English and German. I ended up using the code from
zahl2string package.

http://ctan.org/pkg/zahl2string

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Tom Sgouros <tomfool at as220.org> wrote:

> There is code to do this (or something similar) in the memoir class.
>
>  -tom
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:43 PM, VAFA KHALIGHI <vafaklg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I need to have a counter that counts like "first, second, third, fourrth,
>> ...".  (say up to ten thousandth). I can create a counter and put all of
>> these in it just like:
>>
>> \def\@mycounter#1{%
>>   \ifcase#1\or First\or Second\or Third\or ...\else\@ctrerr\fi}
>>
>> \def\mycounter#1{\expandafter\@mycounter\csname c@#1\endcsname}
>>
>> But it will be  very annoying to put each single of these in \@mycounter.
>> I was wondering if you know a better solution.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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