Package numberpt

Typeset counters spelled out in Portuguese.

Author: Miguel V. S. Frasson mvsfrasson@gmail.com

This material is subject to the LaTeX Project Public License 1.3c

What it does

Package numberpt defines commands to display counters speeled out in Portuguese.

For example,

\renewcommand{\thechapter}{\Numberpt{chapter}}

makes chapter titles to be rendered as

Capítulo Um
Capítulo Dois

The styles are

• \numberpt for all lowercase
• \Numberpt for First word capitalized
• \Numberpt for All Capitalized
• \NUMBERPT for ALL UPPERCASE

Options

In Portuguese, both “catorze” or “quatorze” (for 14) are correct.

In European Portuguese, the spelled out forms for 16, 17 and 19 are “dezasseis”, “dezassete” and “dezanove”. In Brazilian Portuguese, the forms are “dezesseis”, “dezessete” and “dezenove”.

The package has options

• catorze (default) and quatorze to select form for 14.
• dezesseis (default) and dezasseis to select Brazilian or European Portuguese forms for 16, 17 and 19.

Documentation

Full documentation on numberpt.pdf.