From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Date with three-letter month
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:10:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480F5F8E.7080103@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFB3A4FA30.E1C6CAAC-ON80257434.00522E63-80257434.0052B093@converteam.com>
richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have consulted the manuals and even the source (core-con.tex) but I
> cannot find a way of getting a three-letter month using the \date command.
> For example, I would like to display today's date as 23-Apr-08. This
> gives a short display suitable for use in a margin, but avoids the
> confusion of American (04-23-08) vs English (23-04-08) ordering when using
> numbers.
> Can anyone help?
These are available (sort of)
\currentdate[day,--,{\monthshort\normalmonth},--,year] % lowercase
or
\currentdate[day,--,{\MONTHSHORT\normalmonth},--,year] % uppercase
Best wishes,
Taco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-23 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-23 15:03 richard.stephens
2008-04-23 16:10 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2008-04-24 13:15 richard.stephens
2008-04-24 14:04 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-04-24 17:45 ` Peter Münster
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
2008-04-24 15:38 richard.stephens
2008-04-25 9:11 richard.stephens
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