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== Description ==  
 
== Description ==  
Render a number as an ‘oldstyle’ number (also called ‘mediaeval’, or ‘lowercase’).
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Command equivalent of the {{cmd|os}} font style switch which, inter alia, renders numbers as oldstyle numerals.
  
 
== Example ==
 
== Example ==
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<context source="yes" text="yields">
 
<context source="yes" text="yields">
\mediaeval{1234567890}
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\numbers{1234567890 numbers}\crlf
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\mediaeval{1234567890 numbers} 1234567890 \crlf
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\oldstylenumerals{1234567890 numbers} \crlf
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{\os 1234567890 numbers}
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</context>
 
</context>
  
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==
  
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* {{cmd|os}}
 
* {{cmd|defineconversion}}
 
* {{cmd|defineconversion}}
 
* {{cmd|characters}}
 
* {{cmd|characters}}

Revision as of 15:33, 3 July 2012

\mediaeval

Syntax

\mediaeval{...}
{...} number

Description

Command equivalent of the \os font style switch which, inter alia, renders numbers as oldstyle numerals.

Example

\numbers{1234567890 numbers}\crlf
\mediaeval{1234567890 numbers} 1234567890 \crlf
\oldstylenumerals{1234567890 numbers} \crlf
{\os 1234567890 numbers}

yields

See also

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