Hello Wolfgang, thanks for your reply. I see that I was not quite clear with my explanation. The situation is the following: in a function which runs over the months of the year at a certain moment I need to insert at the ConTeXt side the monthname. However the monthname returned by the following statement is all lowercase, which is ok for the translation of the labeltext. In the document however I need the labeltext in with a starting uppercase letter. The question is therefor how to achieve this uppercase first letter \startluacode function monthtable(month) local direct = true local nofdays = converters.nofdays(os.date("%Y"),month,direct) direct = false local d = os.date("%B",os.time({year=os.date("%Y"),month= month,day=1})) context.bTABLE({setups="table:month"}) context.bTR({align="middle"}) context.bTD() context.labeltext(d) -- context.labeltext("%s",interfaces.variables.january) context.eTD() context.eTR() for i = 1, 31 do context.bTR() context.bTD() if i < nofdays +1 then context(i) else context() end context.eTD() context.eTR() end context.eTABLE() end \stopluacode \def\maandtabel#1{\ctxlua{monthtable(#1)}} \starttext \maandtabel{2) \stoptext Kind regards Willi On 4 Jul 2011, at 17:41, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

context.labeltext("%s",interfaces.variables.january)

Am 04.07.2011 um 18:05 schrieb Willi Egger:

Hi Luigi,

hm, did not know this one. Still I can not see that this is going to fit in my situation. I refer to may other mail I sent a minute ago. - The thing is, that the document I am building should be multilingual and therefore I need at the lua-end the lowercase text which should be made first-letter-uppercase at the moment it is typeset.

context.labeltext("%s",interfaces.variables[string.lower(d)]) Wolfgang

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 06:20:37PM +0200, luigi scarso wrote:

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Willi Egger wrote:

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Hi Luigi,

hm, did not know this one. Still I can not see that this is going to fit in my situation. I refer to may other mail I sent a minute ago. - The thing is, that the document I am building should be multilingual and therefore I need at the lua-end the lowercase text which should be made first-letter-uppercase at the moment it is typeset. In the first email you talked about a generic label. Uppercase /lower case are unicode sensitive; as Wolfgang already wrote string.lower(..) and string.upper(..) can help , but they depend on

unicode.utf8.lower()/upper() are a better choice for non-ASCII text. (I still believe the default string manipulation functions should be Unicode aware by default, and the 8-bit ones should be an alternative, not the other way around). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian Arab

On 4-7-2011 6:53, Khaled Hosny wrote:

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 06:20:37PM +0200, luigi scarso wrote:

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On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Willi Egger wrote:

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Hi Luigi,

hm, did not know this one. Still I can not see that this is going to fit in my situation. I refer to may other mail I sent a minute ago. - The thing is, that the document I am building should be multilingual and therefore I need at the lua-end the lowercase text which should be made first-letter-uppercase at the moment it is typeset. In the first email you talked about a generic label. Uppercase /lower case are unicode sensitive; as Wolfgang already wrote string.lower(..) and string.upper(..) can help , but they depend on

unicode.utf8.lower()/upper() are a better choice for non-ASCII text.

(I still believe the default string manipulation functions should be Unicode aware by default, and the 8-bit ones should be an alternative, not the other way around).

you can just rename/remap them if needed; swapping stock lua and unicode functions would render regular lua manuals/tutorials useless and also make lua 8-bit dirty (local lower = utf.lower at the top of a file is enough to get what you want) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------