From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: date problem
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:39:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4451C3C4-3D71-45E0-A57D-4C2E0F14E45D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5BD5774E-29BF-4620-88DF-202671B4EE87@uva.nl>
Am 20.03.2013 um 14:26 schrieb H. van der Meer <H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>:
> There is a nasty problem when defining the \date.
>
> First approach:
> *** > macro:->\date
> \def\thedate{\date}\writestatus{***}{\meaning\thedate}
> Alas, I get lateron a luatex error on \date:
> ! LuaTeX error [string "\directlua "]:1: invalid escape sequence near '\d'.
>
> Second approach, use \edef to get an expanded value.
> \edef\thedate{\date}\writestatus{***}{\meaning\thedate}
> *** > macro:->\date
> Alas, the date is still the unexpanded macro and not something like 20 march 2013.
>
> How to?
All commands with optional argument aren’t expandable and \date *has* two optional argument.
To get now the date in the output you can either use the expandable \rawdate[] command (the brackets are necessary) or you use \ctxcommand{currentdate(<specification>,<language>)} (language can also be "false").
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-20 13:26 H. van der Meer
2013-03-20 13:39 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2013-03-20 13:52 ` Meer H. van der
2013-03-20 14:11 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-03-20 14:29 ` Meer H. van der
2013-03-20 14:50 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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