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From: Matt Gushee <matt@gushee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Minor date formatting issue
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 23:04:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABrD0eeP-ZxhOUVEvYvoSxfj+etFji9xitcx+a3GoeAEafbKVA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27A143B7-5F18-447D-94F9-40081EDDDA16@gmail.com>

Hi, Wolfgang--

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Wolfgang Schuster
<schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:

>> I am experimenting with the \currentdate command. I am finding that
>>
>>  \currentdate [weekday,{,~},month,day+,{,~},year]
>>
>> which should work according to the Wiki, produces:
>>
>>  Thursday, Augustday+, 2013

> It’s recommended to use “day:ord” with \currentdate but you also use “day:+”.
>
> \starttext
> \currentdate[day,space,day:ord,space,day:+]
> \stoptext

Ah, yes, thank you!

Perhaps someone should update the wiki? I suppose I could get an
account and fix it myself ... if people don't mind someone as inexpert
as me messing around in there ...

--
Matt
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-10  5:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-09  3:43 Matt Gushee
2013-08-09 12:58 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-08-10  5:04   ` Matt Gushee [this message]
2013-08-10  9:16     ` Sietse Brouwer

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