Re: Problem of displaying a date with a macro

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 9/9/2019 3:24 PM, Fabrice Couvreur wrote:
> Hello,
> I just updated my version of ConTeXt and the bug is still present.
> Can you confirm ?
> Thank you.
> Fabrice
> 
> Le mer. 28 août 2019 à 16:34, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu 
> <mailto:adityam@umich.edu>> a écrit :
> 
>     On Wed, 28 Aug 2019, Fabrice Couvreur wrote:
> 
>      > Hello,
>      > The date display is incorrect : I get day 28 instead of day 2.
>      > Thank you
>      > Fabrice
>      >
>      > \defineframed
>      >    [headerframed]
>      >    [frame=off,
>      >     height=fit,
>      >     width=fit]
>      >
>      >  \definecolor[ColorA][0.8(white)]
>      >
>      >
>      >  \startsetups [headertext]
>      >
>      >    \setupheadertexts
>      >      [{\startframed [headerframed]
>      >      [foregroundstyle=bold,background=framewithshadow]
>      >      \getvariable{headertext}{title}
>      > n\high{o}\,\getvariable{headertext}{number}
>      >      \stopframed}]
>      >
>      >    \setupheadertexts
>      >      [{\startframed [headerframed]
>      >      [align=flushleft,foregroundstyle=]
>      >       Lycée LA SALLE, Lille\\
>      >       \getvariable{headertext}{location}
>      >       \stopframed}]
>      >
>      >      [{\startframed [headerframed]
>      >          [align=flushright,foregroundstyle=]
>      >
>      >
>     \date[d=\getvariable{headertext}{day},m=\getvariable{headertext}{month},y=\getvariable{headertext}{year}]
>      >          \stopframed}]
>      >
>      >  \stopsetups
>      >
>      >  \setvariable{headertext}{set}{\directsetup{headertext}}
>      >
>      > \startuseMPgraphic{framewithshadow}
>      > path p;
>      >
>     p:=origin--(OverlayWidth,0)--(OverlayWidth,OverlayHeight)--(0,OverlayHeight)--cycle;
>      > fill p shifted (2,-2);
>      > fill p withcolor 0.8white;
>      > draw p;
>      > setbounds currentpicture to p;
>      > \stopuseMPgraphic
>      >
>      > \defineoverlay[framewithshadow][\useMPgraphic{framewithshadow}]
>      >
>      > \starttext
>      > \setvariables
>      >   [headertext]
>      >   [title={Devoir maison},
>      >    number={6},
>      >    day={02},
>      >    month={09},
>      >    year={2019},
>      >    location={Seconde B},
>      >    time={}]
>      > \input knuth
>      > \stoptext
> 
>     There was a bug with the \date macro which I had reported a few days
>     ago.
>     This appears to be related to that. Should be fixed in the next beta.

I have a chicken-egg issue to solve (probebly in the end have to drop 
something for consistency deep down)

can you use for now:

     \date[d=21,m=2,y=2219] [month,{ },D,{, },year]
     \date[d=22,m=12,y=2119][month,{ },D,{, },year]



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