>> 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
>
Thanks, Taco, that does the job for now.
Now all we need is something called \Monthshort which puts the
first letter in uppercase (Jan, Feb etc)!!!
Thanks,
Richard
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