Style issue: arabic to roman numerals

Pierre C.

Hi everybody,

As you may know, some journals require that volume information be noted in roman rather than arabic numbers. Unfortunately I’ve not been able to find how this can be changed (if it can be) from within a style. Let me propose an example. In a footnote, a reference may read:

Aaron Aaronson, “Title of the paper,” *Journal title* 57 (1999), p. 1-99.

Some journals require instead:

Aaron Aaronson, “Title of the paper,” *Journal title* LVII, 1 (1999), p. 1-99.

That is, volume in roman numerals, and issue in arabic numerals.

Is there a way to do this (e.g. with the visual or the code editor)?

Thanks,
Pierre

zuphilip

You can add in visual editor a node of type number (#), enable volume as its variable, and change the form (number format) to roman, and maybe change the text-case to uppercase.

adamsmith

in the code editor it would be
<number variable="volume" form="roman"/>
edit: with text-case="uppercase" as needed.

Pierre C.

Thanks to you two: after some efforts, it works perfectly :)

In addition, in the event that someone else needs to do the same, it is to be noted that some styles use <text variable=(...)/> instead of <number variable="volume" form="roman" (...) />, and thus it may be necessary to make a change.