From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/81244 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "H. van der Meer" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: date problem Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:26:13 +0100 Message-ID: <5BD5774E-29BF-4620-88DF-202671B4EE87@uva.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.3 \(1503\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363785985 15789 80.91.229.3 (20 Mar 2013 13:26:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:26:25 +0000 (UTC) To: ConTeXt NTG Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Mar 20 14:26:48 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UIJ2V-0000q4-RK for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:26:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3921D10204; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:26:24 +0100 (CET) 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 pEPR1FsVkarY; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:26:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AF26101EF; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:26:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37433101EF for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:26:17 +0100 (CET) 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 Wu8sujJZ3w1F for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:26:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3048B101EE for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:26:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ezel.ic.uva.nl (ezel.ic.uva.nl [146.50.108.158]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r2KDQEQY006658 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:26:15 +0100 Original-Received: from elhalyn-ethernet.fritz.box (a82-95-102-36.adsl.xs4all.nl [82.95.102.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by ezel.ic.uva.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r2KDQDxC006686 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:26:14 +0100 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1503) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.9999 (Score 4.7, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=146.50.108.158; 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: 06JdNqeIy - a3d6555e504b - 20130320 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:81244 Archived-At: There is a nasty problem when defining the \date. First approach: *** > macro:->\date \def\thedate{\date}\writestatus{***}{\meaning\thedate} Alas, I get lateron a luatex error on \date: ! LuaTeX error [string "\directlua "]:1: invalid escape sequence near '\d'. Second approach, use \edef to get an expanded value. \edef\thedate{\date}\writestatus{***}{\meaning\thedate} *** > macro:->\date Alas, the date is still the unexpanded macro and not something like 20 march 2013. How to? Hans van der Meer ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________