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Has anyone out there attacked the problem of generating english
spelling of numbers from TeX?

Such an animal would work like so:

	\count255=123
	\englishnum\count255	==>	one-hundered twenty three

How about a numeric `pretty printer' like so:

	\count255=1234567
	\prettynum\count255	==>	1,234,567

Or a `dollar printer' like so:

	\count255=1234567
	\dollarnum		==>	$12,345.67

These seem like logical companions to \number and \romannumeral, and
would be *much* easier to implement as built-ins; though they are
probably doable with some hairy set of macros.  I'm trying to avoid
getting too deeply involved in TeXarcana, but I'll give it a whirl
if no one else has done so.

--gm
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