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From: "Peter Münster" <pmlists@free.fr>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Date with three-letter month
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:45:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080424174519.GA10745@gaston.couberia.bzh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF507A9CCD.8ADF4D68-ON80257435.00489734-80257435.0048CDCD@converteam.com>

On Thu, Apr 24 2008, richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote:

> Thanks Taco.  This does the job.  All I need now is a version (\Monthshort 
> ??) which puts the first
> letter in uppercase, Jan , Feb, etc.

% engine=luatex
\startluacode
function Monthshort(m)
--	os.setlocale("fr_FR.utf8") -- just for testing...
	tex.print(os.date("%b", os.time({day = 10, month = m, year = 2000})))
	os.setlocale("C")
end
\stopluacode
\starttext
\ctxlua{Monthshort(\the\normalmonth)}
\stoptext

Cheers, Peter

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-24 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-24 13:15 richard.stephens
2008-04-24 14:04 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-04-24 17:45 ` Peter Münster [this message]
2008-04-24 18:36   ` Hans Hagen
2008-04-24 18:53     ` Peter Münster
2008-04-24 19:21       ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-04-24 19:55         ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-04-24 20:22           ` Hans Hagen
2008-04-24 21:00             ` Arthur Reutenauer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-25  9:11 richard.stephens
2008-04-24 15:38 richard.stephens
2008-04-23 15:03 richard.stephens
2008-04-23 16:10 ` Taco Hoekwater

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