ordinalpt.sty --- counters as ordinal numbers in Portuguese =========================================================== Copyright (C) 2007 Miguel V. S. Frasson (mvsfrasson@gmail.com) LICENSE ======= This file is the README file, part of the `ordinalpt' package. This package may be distributed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License, as described in lppl.txt in the base LaTeX distribution, either version 1.3 or (at your option) any later version. You can obtain a copy of the lppl.txt file from the internet on http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt INTRODUCTION ============ The package \textsf{ordinalpt} provides a counter style (like +\arabic+, +\alph+ and others) but that produces as output strings like ``primeiro'' (first in Portuguese), ``segundo'' (second), ``terceiro'' (third), \ldots, up to ``mil\'esimo noningent\'esimo nonag\'esimo nono'' (1999$^{\text{th}}$). There are counter commands to output the text in UPPERCASE, Capitalized or in lowercase, with masculine or feminine gender. USER COMMANDS ============= \ordptmasc{counter} --> ordinals in lowercase masculine \Ordptmasc{counter} --> ordinals in capitalized masculine \ORDPTMASC{counter} --> ordinals in uppercase masculine \ordptfem{counter} --> ordinals in lowercase feminine \Ordptfem{counter} --> ordinals in capitalized feminine \ORDPTFEM{counter} --> ordinals in uppercase feminine PACKAGE OPTIONS =============== In Portuguese, both tricent\'esimo and trecent\'esimo (for 300th) sexcent\'esimo and seiscent\'esimo (for 600th) noningent\'esimo and nongent\'esimo (for 900th) are correct forms for ordinals. So there are the options tricentesimo (default) trecentesimo sexcentesimo (default) seiscentesimo noningentesimo (default) nongentesimo that switch to the respective forms when counters have values 300, 600 or 900, respectively.