Hello Hans, I'm not sure - did you mean it this way? It's working but it's a bit ugly... isn't there any macro providing the raw month number directly (something like \v!monthnumber)? -Richard P.S. I also cannot get rid of the spaces before the numbers. I guess there should be no spaces in Chinese; see how Xiao wrote the date: "2005年12月22日" ... Currently, \currentdate gives: "2005年 12月 22日". _____ From: Hans Hagen [mailto:pragma@wxs.nl] To: mailing list for ConTeXt users [mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl] Sent: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:57:55 +0100 Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Chinese in current ConTeXt Richard Gabriel wrote
1. \v!month gives chinese number with the month symbol [so appending \cnmonth once more is undesired]. I guess the resulting date is a bit inconsistent - there should be all Arabic numbers or all Chinese, not mixed.
what is convention in china?
From Xiao Jianfeng:
In Arabic number, today is "2005年12月22日", and in Chinese number, today is "二○○五年十二月二十二日". Both are often used, and the former is more popular now, because it is easier to write or type with keyboard.
So it's up to you...
ok, so send me the def's that correspond to the former (2005 .... ) _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context