Date:         Thu, 22 May 2003 10:35:22 +0300
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From:         Tzafrir Cohen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: Hebrew numbers in TeX
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On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:49:33AM +0300, Ron Artstein wrote:
> Tzafrir,
>
> Thanks for putting the style file as an attachment. I don't know
> why this didn't occur to me :)
>
> > Side note:
> >
> > \Alphfinal and \Hebrewnumeralfinal don't seem to produce
> > different results than \Alph and \Hebrewnumeral, accordingly.
> > I'll try to look into this later.
>
> Have you tried numbers above 100? In the current implementation,
> \Alphfinal and \Hebrewnumeralfinal produce an initial letter
> if no hundreds digit is present, so you only see their effect
> starting with 120 (qof-"-finalkaf). It works for me, even with
> \pagenumbering{\Alphfinal} (lots of \newpage commands...).

Something simpler, that will keep you from flipping pages:

\documentclass[twocolumns]{article}
\usepackage[english,hebrew]{babel}
\usepackage{hebnum}
\begin{document}
\renewcommand{\theenumi}{\Alphfinal{enumi}}
\begin{enumerate}
\setcounter{enumi}{20}
\whiledo{\value{enumi}< 65}{\item \arabic{enumi}}
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

> What the desired behavior should be depends on how years without
> hundreds are traditionally written. Since A.D. 1290 (he' nun') was
> the year when the expulsion of Jews from England took place, there
> must be plenty of references to it in Jewish sources. It's just a
> matter of tracking them down and finding out if they used initial
> or final nun.

What's wrong with that form?

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