From: Henri Menke <henrimenke@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: date calculated with currentdate plus n days
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:46:20 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0c17c2be-6d9f-9acb-49f0-8a6cec07431e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <399e992d-6330-c098-657e-a936cb800e6a@mailbox.org>
On top of that I recommend to use context.date to get the correct
formatting according to the current language options:
\starttext
\def\duedate{\ctxlua{
local t = os.date('*t', os.time()+ 10 * 24 * 3600)
context.date{ d = t.day, m = t.month, y = t.year }
}}
\duedate
\stoptext
On 14/08/18 05:37, Jan U. Hasecke wrote:
> On 13.08.2018 17:57, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> if you don’t mind using Lua, here you have it:
>>
>> \starttext
>> \def\duedate{\cldcontext{os.date('\letterpercent d/\letterpercent
>> m/\letterpercent Y', os.time()+ 10 * 24 * 3600)}}
>>
>> \duedate
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Just in case it helps,
>
> Thanks!
>
> I thought it should be possible with lua, but I found no entry point to
> use lua in context by defining new commands.
>
> juh
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-13 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-13 15:19 Jan U. Hasecke
2018-08-13 15:57 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-08-13 17:37 ` Jan U. Hasecke
2018-08-13 23:46 ` Henri Menke [this message]
2018-08-14 5:29 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-08-14 7:24 ` Henri Menke
2018-08-14 14:58 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-08-15 5:46 ` Use of context in lua (was: date calculated with currentdate plus n days) Jan U. Hasecke
2018-08-15 6:45 ` Use of context in lua Henri Menke
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