From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/61399 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: questions regarding `\date` Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:41:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4C7CEA52.9090501@elvenkind.com> References: <1283004172.21343.54.camel@mattotaupa> <1283243379.3971.23.camel@mattotaupa> <20100831094806.GA24714@aides> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283254897 8679 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2010 11:41:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:41:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Philipp Gesang To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 31 13:41:36 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqPDb-0005Qw-Kc for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:41:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E73ACA6DD; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:41:35 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 8oZYThulEBXq; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:41:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F209CA6D4; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:41:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF8CCA6D4 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:41:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id jmjouT8MhGbh for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:41:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (filter4-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.72]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76F3BCA6CA for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:41:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.24]) by filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id o7VBfDh2019592 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:41:15 +0200 Original-Received: from boo.fritz.box (boo.demon.nl [83.163.247.99]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o7VBf6W7055689; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:41:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from taco@elvenkind.com) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100809 Mandriva/3.1.2-3mdv2011.0 (2011.0) Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: <20100831094806.GA24714@aides> X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=194.109.24.24; country=NL; region=07; city=Amsterdam; latitude=52.3500; longitude=4.9167; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.3500,4.9167&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 03D0XFdMv - 13dabf69461e - 20100831 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.72 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:61399 Archived-At: 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. 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