[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have consulted the manuals and even the source (core-con.tex) but I
> cannot find a way of getting a three-letter month using the \date command.
> For example, I would like to display today's date as 23-Apr-08. This
> gives a short display suitable for use in a margin, but avoids the
> confusion of American (04-23-08) vs English (23-04-08) ordering when using
> numbers.
> Can anyone help?
These are available (sort of)
\currentdate[day,--,{\monthshort\normalmonth},--,year] % lowercase
or
\currentdate[day,--,{\MONTHSHORT\normalmonth},--,year] % uppercase
Best wishes,
Taco
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