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:
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\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}
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Ergo common spaces.
Philipp
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