I'd like to use datetime
's \monthname
as part of a command; consider this snippet of command line pdflatex
use:
$ pdflatex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
restricted \write18 enabled.
**\documentclass{article}
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, lo
aded.
*\usepackage{datetime}
(/PATH/TO/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/PATH/TO/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
*\newdate{someDate}{30}{05}{2011}
(/PATH/TO/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/datetime.sty
(/PATH/TO/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fmtcount/fmtcount.sty
(/PATH/TO/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)
(/PATH/TO/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/PATH/TO/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty)
(/PATH/TO/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fmtcount/fc-english.def)
(/PATH/TO/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fmtcount/fc-USenglish.def)
No configuration file fmtcount.cfg found.
))
*\newcommand\someDateStr{\getdateday{someDate} \monthname[\getdatemonth{someDate}] \getdateyear{someDate}}
*\typeout{\someDateStr}
30 \monthname[05] 2011
*\typeout{\monthname[\getdatemonth{someDate}]}
\monthname[05]
So, it looks like in the construct \monthname[\getdatemonth{someDate}]
, Latex will expand only \getdatemonth{someDate}
, but not the \monthname
part; I'm suspecting it has something to do with the square brackets as arguments, because if I try to use edef
instead, I get an error:
*\edef\someDateStr{\getdateday{someDate} \monthname[\getdatemonth{someDate}] \getdateyear{someDate}}
! Argument of \reserved@a has an extra }.
<inserted text>
\par
<*> ...atemonth{someDate}] \getdateyear{someDate}}
?
So, the question is: how can I use \monthname[\getdatemonth{someDate}]
as a part of a newcommand, such that it results with (in this case) "May"?
Thanks in advance for any responses,
Cheers!