Re: [AUCTeX-devel] \date insert american format

[Tassilo Horn]

Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:

Hi!

>> Two question:
>>
>>     -  couldn't this function allow to select other time formats, like
>>        %d.%m.%Y (german standard)
>
> That's a good idea!

Yes!

>>     -  or best when scanning the header and recognising
>>        \usepackage[german]{babel} auctex  does it itself.
>
> Are you sure everybody would like this?  I think that letting people
> choose the date format through a customizable option without
> overriding it for specific languages is better, one can change the
> format for a specific language using the `TeX-language-*-hook' hooks
> anyway.

That's also my thinking.

Bye,
Tassilo