On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> 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
>
> Thanks Taco. This does the job. All I need now is a version (\Monthshort
> ??) which puts the first
> letter in uppercase, Jan , Feb, etc.
See if this works (untested)
\unprotect
\setuplabeltext [\s!en] [\v!january :\s!mnem=Jan.]
\setuplabeltext [\s!en] [\v!february :\s!mnem=Feb.]
\setuplabeltext [\s!en] [\v!march :\s!mnem=Mar.]
\setuplabeltext [\s!en] [\v!april :\s!mnem=Apr.]
\setuplabeltext [\s!en] [\v!may :\s!mnem=May]
\setuplabeltext [\s!en] [\v!june :\s!mnem=Jun.]
\setuplabeltext [\s!en] [\v!july :\s!mnem=Jul.]
\setuplabeltext [\s!en] [\v!august :\s!mnem=Aug.]
\setuplabeltext [\s!en] [\v!september:\s!mnem=Sep.]
\setuplabeltext [\s!en] [\v!october :\s!mnem=Oct.]
\setuplabeltext [\s!en] [\v!november :\s!mnem=Nov.]
\setuplabeltext [\s!en] [\v!december :\s!mnem=Dec.]
\protect
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