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I'm finishing a book, and I want the first page of each chapter to begin with the literal numerotation:

Chapter one

...

Chapter two

...

chapter three

etc.

I've seen it in several books so I think it possible, but how?

A file example...in arabic 

\documentclass[14pt,a4paper]{extbook}%{article}%

\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{boxedminipage}
\usepackage{slashbox}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{minitoc}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{fmultico}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.1pt}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{array}

\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[numerals=maghrib]{arabic}
\setotherlanguage{english}

\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic, AutoFakeSlant=-0.02]{Amiri}
\setsansfont[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.5]{Amiri}

\gappto\captionsarabic{\renewcommand{\chaptername}{الباب}}
\begin{document}
\chapter{المحاكاة}
كيف يمكننا إيجاد  احتمال الفوز في  لعبة         
 \end{document}
egreg
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Faouzi Bellalouna
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  • You don't have to sign with your name since it automatically appears in the lower right corner of your post. – jub0bs May 05 '14 at 14:50
  • How do you want cross-references to chapter numbers to be typeset: As numerals (arabic: 1, 2, ...; roman: i, ii, ...; alphabetic: a, b, ...) or as literal words ("One", "Two", ...)? Please advise. – Mico May 05 '14 at 15:01
  • I want my references numeral in arabic and the titles (and only the titles) in words "One", "Two" – Faouzi Bellalouna May 05 '14 at 15:13
  • Do you have code for titlesec or are you just loading it? If you have \titleformat{\chapter}..., then that's the place where action should be done. – egreg May 05 '14 at 18:07
  • @FaouziBellalouna see updated answer – David Carlisle May 05 '14 at 18:29
  • @egreg I have the code

    \titleformat{\chapter}[display] {\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge} \titlespacing{\chapter} {0pt}{40pt}{-10pt}

    in my macros for contents.. and I don't understand what you're saying "that's the place where action should be done"..

     – Faouzi Bellalouna May 06 '14 at 15:16
  • @FaouziBellalouna Instead of \thechapter in \titleformat, use a macro like David defined, say \words{chapter} (and provide the definition). – egreg May 06 '14 at 15:55
  • @egreg Ok but in the table of contents, the numerotation is literal, except chapter 1.. After, in the contents, it's written "two", "three", "four"..etc... I want to obtain a numeric numbering in the contents, and literal numbering in the first page of the page only. – Faouzi Bellalouna May 06 '14 at 16:14
  • The package titletoc seems not to work and makes an infinite loop. From David's code use only the definition of \words and don't add the changes to \@makechapterhead. – egreg May 06 '14 at 16:21
  • If I don't use the change to @makechapterhead, the numbering remains numerical not literal ! – Faouzi Bellalouna May 06 '14 at 17:03

1 Answers1

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use \words{chapter} instead of \arabic{chapter} where words is defined by

\newcommand\words[1]{\expandafter\xwords\csname c@#1\endcsname}
\def\xwords#1{\ifcase#1\or
one\or
two\or
three\else
I need more words\fi}

I switched fonts as I didn't have the one you used, and left the words in English:-)

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\documentclass[14pt,a4paper]{extbook}%{article}%

\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{boxedminipage}
\usepackage{slashbox}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{minitoc}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{fmultico}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.1pt}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{array}


\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[numerals=maghrib]{arabic}
\setotherlanguage{english}

\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic, AutoFakeSlant=-0.02]{Arial}
\setsansfont[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.5]{Arial}

\gappto\captionsarabic{\renewcommand{\chaptername}{الباب}}
% probably can use titlesec's \titleformat but I don't know that package:-}
\makeatletter
\let\old@makechapterhead\@makechapterhead
\def\@makechapterhead{\def\thechapter{\words{chapter}}\old@makechapterhead}
\makeatother


\newcommand\words[1]{\expandafter\xwords\csname c@#1\endcsname}
\def\xwords#1{\ifcase#1\or
one\or
two\or
three\or
four\or
five\else
I need more words\fi}




\begin{document}

\chapter{المحاكاة}
كيف يمكننا إيجاد  احتمال الفوز في  لعبة         
 \end{document}
David Carlisle
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  • After three\else, I write four\else five\else six\else seven\else eight\else nine\else ten\else after this \fi} ?? – Faouzi Bellalouna May 05 '14 at 15:08
  • The numerotation is automatic ? so when I write \chapter{First chapter}, it writes "First chapter one" ? – Faouzi Bellalouna May 05 '14 at 15:10
  • No just use \else for the last "error" case where you run out of words, separate all the real cases by \or, the chapter heading code probably defines Chapter \arabic{chapter} you need to change that to use \words instead, if it isn't clear how to change that you could ask about that but you have given no indication of your document class (questions should always include an example document for that reason) – David Carlisle May 05 '14 at 15:21
  • Please see the example what I added, without commenting here... – Faouzi Bellalouna May 05 '14 at 17:20
  • You could take a look at the fmtcount package: it is dedicated to translating the value of counters into tex, and has some multilingual support. There is no arabic support, but you might take what exists as a model. – Bernard May 05 '14 at 18:56
  • @DavidCarlisle. All works well, tried to several chapter.. Thanks – Faouzi Bellalouna May 06 '14 at 04:52
  • @Bernard. I'll discover this package, and inform if I can write an application of it in arabic. Thanks – Faouzi Bellalouna May 06 '14 at 04:52
  • @DavidCarlisle. After more try, I have the problem of the table of contents, where the numerotation of the chapters is "literal", 1, after two, three..etc. How to apply numerical numbering in the contents ? – Faouzi Bellalouna May 06 '14 at 05:25
  • https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/640752/change-part-numbers-to-words-in-arabic?noredirect=1#comment1596944_640752 – Silva Apr 15 '22 at 18:19