From: Adam Reviczky <reviczky@gmail.com>
To: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Short weekday option for date command
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 21:14:29 +0100 [thread overview]
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Thank you Wolfgang!
Adam
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:11 PM Wolfgang Schuster <
wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Adam Reviczky schrieb am 08.04.2020 um 21:53:
> > Thank you Hans and Wolfgang,
> >
> > I have updated the wiki (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/date)
> > with the new dayshort/daylong options, but I seem to get an empty value
> > for every day after day 7, see example:
> >
> > \starttext
> > \date[d=7,m=4,y=2008][{\dayshort\normalday},{,~},day,~,month,~,year] \par
> > \date[d=8,m=4,y=2008][{\dayshort\normalday},{,~},day,~,month,~,year]
> > \stoptext
> >
> > This gives me (note "sun" is missing in the second line):
> >
> > sat, 7 April 2008
> > , 8 April 2008
> >
> > Am I using the options correctly?
>
> No, the \daylong and \dayshort expect a number between 1 and 7 and
> result in a label for the requested day of the week but it's not meant
> to be used in \currentdate.
>
> > Still using luatex and not luametatex.
>
> To get the short names with \currentdate you have to append ":mnem" to
> the weekday, w, WEEKDAY or W keywords.
>
> \starttext
>
> \startlines
> \date[d=7,m=4,y=2008][weekday,{,~},day,~,month,~,year]
> \date[d=7,m=4,y=2008][weekday:mnem,{,~},day,~,month,~,year]
> \date[d=8,m=4,y=2008][weekday,{,~},day,~,month,~,year]
> \date[d=8,m=4,y=2008][weekday:mnem,{,~},day,~,month,~,year]
> \stoplines
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-04 9:47 Adam Reviczky
2020-04-04 10:24 ` Hans Hagen
2020-04-08 19:53 ` Adam Reviczky
2020-04-08 20:11 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-04-08 20:14 ` Adam Reviczky [this message]
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