February 1993

Answer To Tables Wish List Item

To meet mil spec requirements, item 5 requested a method to have the bottom rulings open on all but the last page and the top rulings open on all but the first page. This is a standard feature in Interleaf 5.

To access this feature, select one of the rows of the table and execute
Props -> Table:

On the last line of the special Table property sheet, change from the standard selection of "Both" to "None":

This will yield the desired result, as shown in the first figure above.

Changing The Date Format

;; Change default date format
(lisp-set-implementation
  "Interleaf Lisp" "2.0")
;; (Not a product of Interleaf, Inc.)
(defun doc-insert-date ()
 "(doc-insert-date)
Insert current date into the open document
 at the caret.
This function is usually bound to Ctrl-x d."
 (tell (doc-point-marker) mid:insert
  (strftime "%d %B %Y")))
(putprop 'doc-insert-date 'kbd-keydoc
  #.(msgk "insert\ndate"))

Select this code on your desktop and execute:
Custom -> Load
or place it in your No Selection cabinet to access it via your Custom menu.

To make the date format become: 2/15/93 replace "%d %B %Y" above with "%m/%d/%y". The default Interleaf definition uses just the argument "%x". You may create other formats by using a combination of characters and these special codes:

• %a -- abbreviated weekday name
• %A -- the full weekday name
• %b -- the abbreviated month name
• %B -- the month name
• %c -- a local date and time representation.
• %d -- the day of the month as a decimal
• %H -- the decimal hour (24-hour clock)
• %I -- the decimal hour (12-hour clock)
• %j -- the decimal day of the year
• %m -- the decimal month
• %M -- the decimal minute
• %p -- either AM or PM
• %S -- the decimal second
• %U -- the decimal week number of the year (Sunday as first day of the week)
• %w -- the decimal weekday (0=Sunday - 6=Saturday).
• %W -- the decimal week number of the year (Monday as first day of the week)
• %x -- a local date representation.
• %X -- a local time representation.
• %y -- the decimal year without century
• %Y -- the decimal year with century
• %Z -- the time zone name
• %% -- %

We owe our thanks to Christine Hale for this tip as well.

Dave Eaton
AIUG Newsletter Editor

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