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[77.191.163.32]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z45sm3086124eeu.10.2013.03.20.07.50.15 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:50:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9C45DD42-66CC-44D5-97F0-E008E1834D96@uva.nl> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1503) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=74.125.83.52; country=US; region=CA; city=Mountain View; postalcode=94043; latitude=37.4192; longitude=-122.0574; metrocode=807; areacode=650; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.4192,-122.0574&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 03JdOOjdd - 07bae715e03b - 20130320 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.71 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:81251 Archived-At: Am 20.03.2013 um 15:29 schrieb "Meer H. van der" : > I see. But this is not working too. Following your suggestion I now get: > \edef\thisdate{\ctxcommand{currentdate("month, ,day, , year","\currentla= nguage")}}\writestatus{***}{\meaning\thisdate} > *** > macro:->\labeltext {march} 20 2013 > The problem is essentially the same. \starttext \writestatus{***}{\cldcontext{os.date("\letterpercent Y\space\letterpercent= m\space\letterpercent d")}} \stoptext > I am most unhappy with this, because fixing the current date in some macr= o shouldn't be impossible. = \starttext \writestatus{***}{\number\normalyear \space \number\normalmonth \space \num= ber\normalday} \stoptext > And why all those extra ,s in month, ,day, , year? This should be =93month,space,day,space,year=94, =93space=94 in this list i= s a keywords to add a space between the entries. > I would suggest that besides \currentdate one should be able to also use = \currentdate[month][day][year][language], \currentdate[day][mont][year][lan= guage],etc. And then be able to store the expansion in a macro. Is it possi= ble to incorporate this in the next beta? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/date Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________