vincentb1
commented
8 years ago Yes, I agree the point, that would allow to make it easier to have roman ordinals like « François Ier », so the other issue #21 that you opened on this would be easy to fulfill.
I need some more thinking about that… Anyway I would like first to be finished with issue #18 first.
Currently,
\ordinalnum{⟨number⟩}prints⟨number⟩followed by its suffix which depends on the underlying language.It could be helpful for
fmtcountto provide a public (or private) macro, say\ordinalnumsuffix{⟨number⟩}, that prints only the suffix of\ordinalnum{⟨number⟩}. For instance in English:\ordinalnumsuffix{1}would print "st",\ordinalnumsuffix{2}would print "nd",\ordinalnumsuffix{3}would print "rd",\ordinalnumsuffix{4}would print "th",\ordinalnumsuffix{20}would print "th",\ordinalnumsuffix{21}would print "st",\ordinalnumsuffix{22}would print "nd",\ordinalnumsuffix{23}would print "rd",\ordinalnumsuffix{24}would print "th",Hence one can use for other tasks all the
fmtcount's machinery concerning the grammar structure and different abbreviations of the different languages.