From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Minor date formatting issue
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 14:58:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27A143B7-5F18-447D-94F9-40081EDDDA16@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABrD0eeVrs-o0UJqbaVQd247o6z7SYJe7UebN1EtwOVAXJ5j8A@mail.gmail.com>
Am 09.08.2013 um 05:43 schrieb Matt Gushee <matt@gushee.net>:
> Hello, all--
>
> I am experimenting with the \currentdate command. I am finding that
>
> \currentdate [weekday,{,~},month,day+,{,~},year]
>
> which should work according to the Wiki, produces:
>
> Thursday, Augustday+, 2013
>
> This command:
>
> \currentdate [weekday,{,~},month,day,{,~},year]
>
> works as expected. I also tried
>
> \date [][weekday,{,~},month,day+,{,~},year]
>
> but that produced the same result as above.
>
> I have a recent stable release of the standalone ConTeXt package from
> the Garden. Is there a new way to format a date with an ordinal
> indicator (-st, -nd, -rd, -th), or is that just not working at the
> moment? Please advise.
It’s recommended to use “day:ord” with \currentdate but you also use “day:+”.
\starttext
\currentdate[day,space,day:ord,space,day:+]
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-09 3:43 Matt Gushee
2013-08-09 12:58 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2013-08-10 5:04 ` Matt Gushee
2013-08-10 9:16 ` Sietse Brouwer
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