Re: ordinal numbers

Sorry for being unclear.  My question was about speech. That is,
HTML markup that would be pronounced correctly.

If there were an :ordinal property, is that on the math element,
and somehow AT needs to use that and ignore the immediately following
characters?

David



On Fri, 20 Dec 2024, Neil Soiffer wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
>