fontsroman numerals
This question led to a new package:
romanbar
(using a variation of egreg's code, and stating this in the manual; the package isn't really new now, sorry for the delayed announcement)
I have read about "How to get Roman numerals" but asked myself how to get Roman numerals formatted as in
i.e. with fitted over- and underline (without manually using boxes and such)?
I'm curious for your answer(s)!
Here's an example how you could use the TeX primitive (mentioned by Martin) for defining your own macro for conversion to big Roman numbers:
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\rom}[1]{\expandafter\@slowromancap\romannumeral #1@}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
Charles's sister Bona, married the eldest son of Philip \rom{6} of France,
the future John \rom{2} of France, in 1335.
Today is the year \rom{2011}.
\end{document}
It's done similar to the definition of the LaTeX macro \Roman.
You need to append the section number to the subsection number using:
\documentclass{article}
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\Roman{section}}
\renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\thesection.\Roman{subsection}}
\begin{document}
\section{First section}
\subsection{First subsection}
\subsection{Second subsection}
\section{Second section}
\subsection{First subsection}
\subsection{Second subsection}
\end{document}
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