Am 09.08.2013 um 05:43 schrieb Matt Gushee <m...@gushee.net>: > Hello, all-- > > 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 > > This command: > > \currentdate [weekday,{,~},month,day,{,~},year] > > works as expected. I also tried > > \date [][weekday,{,~},month,day+,{,~},year] > > but that produced the same result as above. > > I have a recent stable release of the standalone ConTeXt package from > the Garden. Is there a new way to format a date with an ordinal > indicator (-st, -nd, -rd, -th), or is that just not working at the > moment? Please advise.
It’s recommended to use “day:ord” with \currentdate but you also use “day:+”. \starttext \currentdate[day,space,day:ord,space,day:+] \stoptext Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________