Re: ordinal numbers

Hello,
As an Open idea:

intent="_n_plus_first" and take the "st" fragment inside via
<mtext>st</mtext>

If we had :ordinal, it would fit on the containing math or mrow parent,
again using mtext for "st".

For pure HTML you likely need an ARIA solution. I wonder what they do?

Sorry to be brief, idling at an airport.

Greetings,
Deyan

On Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 2:57 PM David W. Farmer <farmer@aimath.org> wrote:

>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >