From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40636 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Date with three-letter month Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:10:54 +0200 Message-ID: <480F5F8E.7080103@elvenkind.com> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208967148 8963 80.91.229.12 (23 Apr 2008 16:12:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:12:28 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Apr 23 18:13:00 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Johae-0003JW-4k for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:13:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E3AD1FCE9; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:12:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14217-01-24; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:11:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64CE11FCE8; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:11:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 555B81FCE8 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:11:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14217-01-23 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:10:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from tullamore.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [82.95.203.226]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FEF31FBA8 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:10:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from glenlivet.elvenkind.com (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by tullamore.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F06D83050288 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:10:54 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080305) In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:40636 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________