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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Philipp Gesang <pgesang@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: questions regarding `\date`
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:41:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C7CEA52.9090501@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100831094806.GA24714@aides>

On 08/31/2010 11:48 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On 2010-08-31<10:29:39>, Paul Menzel wrote:
>>> 3. Spacing between numbers. Using LaTeX there were some suggestions to
>>> typeset a date using small spaces like `29.\,8.\,2010`. I guess this
>>> depends on the fonts used and personal taste? If there is a rule, maybe
>>> that could be added to the typesetting chapter in the user manual.
>>
>> Could you answer or give your opinions an 0., 2. and 3. please? That
>> would be great.
>
> unfortunately I can only come up with a negative answer: I
> skimmed the Bringhurst and although he does discuss date strings
> with slashes as separators,

The Chicago manual (14ed) says that slashed/dotted dates are bad style
and should be avoided and that one should use full month names instead.

Best wishes,
Taco
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-31 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-28 14:02 Paul Menzel
2010-08-28 18:54 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-08-28 19:02   ` Peter Münster
2010-08-28 19:10     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-08-28 20:51     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-08-29 10:17     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-08-31  8:29 ` Paul Menzel
2010-08-31  9:48   ` Philipp Gesang
2010-08-31 11:41     ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2010-08-31 12:14       ` Philipp Gesang
2010-08-31 13:03       ` Martin Schröder

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