I am using the Linux Libertine font through the libertine-legacy package with pdftex. This font contains nice ligatures for roman numerals, e.g., \LibertineGlyph{tworoman}
gives ii. Now I want to use those glyphs whereever they occur with counters, e.g., page numbers in frontmatter, and part
numbering. In the end I would like to have an analogue to \roman
, say \ligroman
, that I can feed to \pagenumberstyle
etc.
1 Answer
From Ⅰ to Ⅻ
Libertine and \libertineGlyph
In my example I use XeLaTeX and libertineotf
which provides \libertineGlyph
and the glyphs. As stated in my comment, this should work with libertine-legacy
, too. The new libertine-type1
and biolinum-type1
don't support this anymore.
This provides two macros:
\libertineRoman{<countername>}
for majuscle, and\libertineroman{<countername>}
for minuscle Roman digits .
This approach converts only numbers between 1 and 12 into the special roman digit glyphs.
Code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{libertineotf}% replace with libertine-legacy
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}% use with pdfLaTeX
\newcommand*{\libertineRoman}[1]{%
\def\Romantemp{}%
\ifnum\value{#1}>0\relax%
\ifnum\value{#1}<13\relax%
\edef\Romantemp{\ifcase\value{#1}\or One\or Two\or Three\or Four\or Five\or Six\or Seven\or Eight\or Nine\or Ten\or Eleven\or Twelve\fi}%
\libertineGlyph{\Romantemp roman}%
\else\Roman{#1}\fi%
\else\Roman{#1}\fi%
}
\newcommand*{\libertineroman}[1]{%
\def\Romantemp{}%
\ifnum\value{#1}>0\relax%
\ifnum\value{#1}<13\relax%
\edef\Romantemp{\ifcase\value{#1}\or one\or two\or three\or four\or five\or six\or seven\or eight\or nine\or ten\or eleven\or twelve\fi}%
\libertineGlyph{\Romantemp roman}%
\else\roman{#1}\fi%
\else\roman{#1}\fi%
}
\begin{document}
\newcounter{testRoman}
\setcounter{testRoman}{13}
\loop\ifnum\value{testRoman}>1\relax\addtocounter{testRoman}{-1}
\thetestRoman: \roman{testRoman} \Roman{testRoman} \libertineroman{testRoman} \libertineRoman{testRoman} \par
\repeat
\end{document}
Output
Unicode (Xe-/LuaLaTeX only)
A solution that uses the whole range of Unicode's Roman digits is already available.
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2I don't think this answer the question -- the OP explicitly asked for pdfTeX. Oct 31, 2012 at 20:09
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@Qrrbrbirlbel @doncherry I just tried with LaTeX and with pdfLaTeX and libertine legacy (which is in my TEXMFLOCAL
$ kpsewhich libertine.sty /usr/local/texlive/2012/../texmf-local/tex/latex/libertine-legacy/libertine.sty
) and it works.– user4686Oct 31, 2012 at 20:12 -
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@doncherry Yes, he did, but as I wrote it should work with a working
libertine-legacy
, too. Oct 31, 2012 at 20:23 -
@mafp Were you aware of that other question when you asked yours? Apparently you don't need L, C, D and M? Than I won't pursue another solution … Oct 31, 2012 at 20:26
-type1
fonts don't support\libertineGlyph
. This can be done with either the oldlibertine-legacy
package or the Xe-/LuaTeX/OpenType versionlibertineotf
.