On 2010-08-31 <13:41:06>, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
On 08/31/2010 11:48 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
unfortunately I can only come up with a negative answer: I skimmed the Bringhurst and although he does discuss date strings with slashes as separators,
The Chicago manual (14ed) says that slashed/dotted dates are bad style and should be avoided and that one should use full month names instead.
Best wishes, Taco
That's what I prefer, too. Bringhurst (v.3.2, p. 81f.) only uses the date as an example for the opposition virgule/solidus and states that “[i]t is useful in dates [...] and in text where a comma or parenthesis might otherwise have been used”. He does not give general advice wrt typesetting of dates. For the record, p. 406 of the TeXbook has this: ··8<············································································ \def\today{\ifcase\month\or January\or February\or March\or April\or May\or June\or July\or August\or September\or October\or November\or December\fi \space\number\day, \number\year} ··8<············································································ Ergo common spaces. Philipp
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