Document Classes ⇒ how to use or create custom counters via another alphabet

[mturan]

I have been busy creating a thesis style for my college in Turkey. Our regs push us use Turkish alphabet in various places like page numbering (appendix), sectioning, enumerating. As you all may now, we are restricted to use arabic, roman, Alph and alph by default. We have 29 letters in our alphabet. Just to cut it short, is there any way to use our alphabet as a counter? can we create something like \Alphtr{counter} or \alphtr{counter}? if yes how please? Thanks in advance

MTURAN


http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/alphabet.htm link of turkish alphabet

Turkish character codes, I used in cls file
% Turkce Karakter Kodlari

\catcode240=13 \def ğ{\u g}
\catcode231=13 \def ç{\c c}
\catcode246=13 \def ö{\"o}
\catcode254=13 \def ş{\c s}
\catcode252=13 \def ü{\"u}
\catcode253=13 \def ı{{\i}}
\catcode221=13 \def İ{\.I}
\catcode199=13 \def Ç{\c C}
\catcode208=13 \def Ğ{\u G}
\catcode214=13 \def Ö{\"O}
\catcode222=13 \def Ş{\c S}
\catcode220=13 \def Ü{\"U}

[nlct]

The definition of \alph is:

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\newcommand\alph[1]{%
  \expandafter \@alph \csname c@#1\endcsname
}

\newcommand\@alph[1]{%
  \ifcase #1%
  \or a\or b\or c\or d\or e\or f\or g\or h\or i\or j\or
  k\or l\or m \or n\or o\or p\or q\or r\or s\or t\or u\or 
  v\or w\or x\or y\or z\else \@ctrerr
 \fi
}

You can adapt this by replacing "a", "b" etc with the Turkish equivalents. (You'll need to add some extra \or parts to go up to 29.)

Regards
Nicola Talbot

[localghost]

Let me translate Nicola's suggestion into code. As she already mentioned, you can derive and equivalent definition for your needs. I once did something similar for a »greek« numbering some time ago [1]. See code below for a new \turkish and \Turkish numbering macro.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\turkish}[1]{%
  \expandafter\@turkish\csname c@#1\endcsname
}
\newcommand*{\@turkish}[1]{%
  \ifcase#1\or a\or b\or c\or \c{c}\or d\or e\or f\or g\or \u{g}\or h\or i%
    \or \i\or j\or k\or l\or m\or n\or o\or \"{o}\or p\or r\or s\or \c{s}%
    \or t\or u\or \"{u}\or v\or y\or z%
    \else\@ctrerr\fi
}
\newcommand*{\Turkish}[1]{%
  \expandafter\@Turkish\csname c@#1\endcsname
}
\newcommand*{\@Turkish}[1]{%
  \ifcase#1\or A\or B\or C\or \c{C}\or D\or E\or F\or G\or \u{G}\or H\or I%
    \or \.{I}\or J\or K\or L\or M\or N\or O\or \"{O}\or P\or R\or S\or \c{S}%
    \or T\or U\or \"{U}\or V\or Y\or Z%
    \else\@ctrerr\fi%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
  \pagenumbering{Turkish}

  \Blinddocument
\end{document}

These new numberings can be used as known from the default ones (\roman, \Roman, …). If you are using the enumitem package, it may require some further additions in the preamble to make the package aware of the new definitions. But we can handle that occasionally.

[1] View topic: greek letters as page numerals?


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[mturan]

Beeing a part of community is a great feeling Thorsten and Nicola, thanx for that . I kinda mixed up what you guys replied and came up with the solution. I tried the first code and it worked for me now, but the second code might be replaced in enumitem.sty in between line 225 through 229 for the second solution as a future reference for the people who want use both eng and tr alphabet selectively. I will be on with more questions and more friends. Again thanks for on time on target replies.

Best Regards
MTURAN

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\renewcommand\alph[1]{%
  \expandafter \@alph \csname c@#1\endcsname
}

\renewcommand\@alph[1]{%
  \ifcase #1%
  \or a\or b\or c\or \c{c}\or d\or e\or f\or g\or \u{g}\or h\or i%
    \or \i\or j\or k\or l\or m\or n\or o\or \"{o}\or p\or r\or s\or \c{s}%
    \or t\or u\or \"{u}\or v\or y\or z%
    \else \@ctrerr
\fi
}
\renewcommand\Alph[1]{%
  \expandafter \@Alph \csname c@#1\endcsname
}

\renewcommand\@Alph[1]{%
  \ifcase #1%
  \or A\or B\or C\or \c{C}\or D\or E\or F\or G\or \u{G}\or H\or I%
    \or \.{I}\or J\or K\or L\or M\or N\or O\or \"{O}\or P\or R\or S\or \c{S}%
    \or T\or U\or \"{U}\or V\or Y\or Z%
    \else \@ctrerr
\fi
}

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\AddEnumerateCounter{\arabic}{\@arabic}{0}
\AddEnumerateCounter{\alph}{\@alph}{m}
\AddEnumerateCounter{\Alph}{\@Alph}{M}
\AddEnumerateCounter{\roman}{\@roman}{viii}
\AddEnumerateCounter{\Roman}{\@Roman}{VIII}
\AddEnumerateCounter{\Turkish}{\@Alphtr}{R}
\AddEnumerateCounter{\turkish}{\@alphtr}{r}

[localghost]

[…] I tried the first code and it worked for me now, but the second code might be replaced in enumitem.sty in between line 225 through 229 for the second solution as a future reference for the people who want use both eng and tr alphabet selectively. […]

It is not necessary (and anything but recommendable) to modify the package file itself. Just put those lines into the preamble of your document and it will work.

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\AddEnumerateCounter{\Turkish}{\@Turkish}{R}
\AddEnumerateCounter{\turkish}{\@turkish}{r}

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Thorsten

[mturan]

Good call Thorsten, thanks for the heads up.