Tadziu Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote: |Just a short addendum: | |Since you know that you'll only be stripping off one of the |known weekday names, there's also a simpler solution: ... |However, there is still a caveat with these solutions: although |\*[DATE*SHORT] may look like a (single-line) string expansion, |it is actually a (multi-line) macro call in disguise. This |means that the following will not work: | | .ds LH Formatted on \*[DATE*SHORT] | |(for example, to set the page header in some hypothetical |document).
Why this? If i use \\*[DATE*SHORT] anything is fine, so it is because the macro is evaluated while the string is defined. Is this restriction documented somewhere? If not it is a bug to keep on the TODO list, thank you! --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
