Re: ordinal numbers

My first thought, because we have focused on intent for speech, is how to
mark up a number for speech. An :ordinal property might make sense to add.

But in re-reading your message, I think you are talking about display. Is
that correct? If so, is there a context where this is not essentially
text?  For example "The 1st number in the sequence is ..."). Is there an
example where it is part of a math expression? For example, some expression
that is a sum from the "1st" entry to the "nth" entry in a sequence,
although I'm at a loss to write something meaningful.

    Neil


On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 6:12 AM David W. Farmer <farmer@aimath.org> wrote:

>
> A discussion on pretext-dev asked about the right way to mark up
> ordinal numbers such as:
>
> 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ...
>
> Those may or may not have the digit in math mode.  But these
> definitely use math mode:
>
> $n$th, $(n+1)$st, ...
>
> I don't recall us discussing this, so I thought I'd ask here.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
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