Re: writing date with ordinal numbers (\enordinaldaynumber) in mkiv

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Am 29.09.2011 um 13:22 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:

> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 01:06, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> 
>> Am 28.09.2011 um 23:58 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> MKII contains a macro \enordinaldaynumber which I don't find in MKIV.
>>> My main question: how can I setup the date to display "23\high{rd}
>>> Sep, 2011"?
>> 
>> \starttext
>> 
>> \currentdate[day+,space,month,space,year]
> 
> Interesting, thank you. I was looking at exactly the right page, but
> overlooked the +. And how do you print "Sep", "sep" and "SEP"? Wiki
> reference for \date lists
>    \date[d=25,m=4,y=2008][day,~,{\monthshort\normalmonth},~,year] \par
>    \date[d=25,m=4,y=2008][day,~,{\MONTHSHORT\normalmonth},~,year]
> but that doesn't work for me.


You can use “month:mnem” and “m:mnem” for the abbreviations of the months but there is a bug in core-con.lua

function commands.currentdate(str,currentlanguage) -- j and jj obsolete
    local list = utilities.parsers.settings_to_array(str)
    local year, month, day = tex.year, tex.month, tex.day
    local auto = true
    for i=1,#list do
        local entry = list[i]
        local tag, plus = match(entry,"^([^%+:]+)(.*)$")
        local ordinal, mnemonic, whatordinal = false, false, nil
        if not tag then
            tag = entry
-       elseif plus == "+" or plus == "ord" then
-           ordinal = true
-       elseif plus == "mnem" then
+       elseif plus == "+" or plus == ":ord" then
+           ordinal = true
+       elseif plus == ":mnem" then
            mnemonic = true
        end
        ...
end

Even when you patch this you don’t get any output because context tries (in the example below) to use the label “August:mnem” but only the label “august:mnem” is defined.

\starttext

\date[d=1,m=8][day:ord,space,month,space,month:mnem]

\starttabulate[|Tl|l|]
\NC August      \EQ \labeltext{August}      \NC\NR
\NC August:mnem \EQ \labeltext{August:mnem} \NC\NR
\NC august:mnem \EQ \labeltext{august:mnem} \NC\NR
\stoptabulate

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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