Introduction ------------ The zhnumber package provides commands to typeset Chinese representations of numbers. The main difference between this package and 'CJKnumb' is that commands provided by this package is expandable in the proper way. So, it seems that zhnumber is a good alternative to CJKnumb package. It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later. This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained". The Current Maintainer of this work is Qing Lee. This work consists of the file zhnumber.dtx, and the derived files zhnumber.pdf, zhnumber.sty, zhnumber-utf8.cfg, zhnumber-gbk.cfg, zhnumber.ins and README.txt (this file). Basic Usage ----------- The package provides the following macros: \zhnumber{number} Convert `number' to a full Chinese representation. \zhnum{counter} Similar to \arabic{counter}, but representation of 'counter' as Chinese numerals. \zhdigits{number} \zhdigits*{number} Handle `number' as a string of digits and convert each of them into the corresponding Chinese digit. The starred version uses the Chinese circle glyph for digit zero; the unstarred version uses the traditional glyph. You can read the package manual (in Chinese) for more detailed explanations. Author ------ Qing Lee Email: sobenlee@gmail.com If you are interested in the process of development you may observe http://code.google.com/p/ctex-kit/ Installation ------------ The package is supplied in dtx format and as a pre-extracted zip file, zhnumber.tds.zip. The later is most convenient for most users: simply unzip this in your local texmf directory and run texhash to update the database of file locations. If you want to unpack the dtx yourself, please ensure that the "iconv" program is installed and working properly, then running "xetex -shell-escape zhnumber.dtx" will extract the package whereas "xelatex -shell-escape zhnumber.dtx" will extract it and also typeset the documentation. The package requires LaTeX3 support as provided in the l3kernel and l3packages bundles. Both of these are available on CTAN as ready-to-install zip files. Suitable versions are available in the latest version of MiKTeX and TeX Live (updating the relevant packages online may be necessary). To compile the documentation without error, you will need the xeCJK package and some specific Chinese Simplified fonts (TrueType or OpenType).