From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/67342 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Use date of the tex file in the document Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:12:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20110324102202.GD3626@orcus> <20110324120017.78d5e9b9@glyph> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300983178 10221 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2011 16:12:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:12:58 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Mar 24 17:12:53 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2n9V-0008AD-Ob for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:12:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF5D0CAB31; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:12:33 +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 V1saK5NEUymx; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:12:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C157CAB36; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:12:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0962CAB36 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:12:29 +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 WB7Ke41CYDLW for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:12:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (filter2-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.70]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09620CAB31 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:12:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.12.86]) by filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p2OGCe5t020647 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:12:41 +0100 Original-Received: FROM [10.0.2.15] (web044115.Wireless.McGill.CA [142.157.44.115]) By tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4D8B6D77.A0A25.7155 ; Authuser adityam; 24 Mar 2011 12:12:39 EDT In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.12.86; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0rEn4cF6o - 47c7335a562a - 20110324 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.70 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:67342 Archived-At: On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > 2011/3/24 Marco > >> On 2011-03-24 Philipp Gesang wrote: >> >> This should also work: >> >> \starttext >> >> \startluacode >> function modification_date (file) >> local f = file >> local attr = lfs.attributes (f) >> assert (type(attr) == "table") >> if attr.mode ~= "directory" then >> return os.date("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M",attr.modification) >> end >> end >> \stopluacode >> >> \unexpanded\def\getdate{% >> \ctxlua{context(modification_date ("\jobname.tex"))}% >> } >> >> \getdate >> >> \stoptext >> > > I would like to do something like the following: > \getdate would return os.date("%Y-%m-%d",attr.modification) > and > \getdate{"long"} would return os.date("%Y-%m-%d > %H:%M",attr.modification) > > I have looked at lua, but do not see how to do it. (Something else to > learn.) Untested: \def\getdate% {\dosinglegroupempty\dogetdate} \def\dogetdate#1% {context{modification_date("\jobname.tex", "#1")}} and then in the lua code function modification_date(file, format) .... if format == "long" then .... else ... end end Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________