Another December, another change of copyright years. I had it set up as <ri;%upyear>, but the editors wanted it changed already in late December. So we replaced that tag with 2020, and will have to do it again in a year.
We're wondering, for next year, is there a better way? The editors are not allowed to touch the formats. Is there a way to set the year change to happen, say, December 20th, rather than on January 1st?
Thanks!
-Carol
Hi Carol,
So that would be something like this (if I have my macro syntax correct):
<mc;(%upmonth]11)*(%upday]19);ri(%upyear+1);ri(%upyear)>
If there's any chance that this <mc> macro can occur where text might wrap to a new line, then because the <ri> macro generates text and because there's some "quirks" with the <mc> macro (in this situation), it would be best in that situation to write this as follows:
<mc;(%upmonth]11)*(%upday]19);nul;skp><ri;%upyear+1><mc;(%upmonth[12)+(%upday[20);nul;skp><ri;%upyear>
Jonathan Dagresta
SDL XPP Engineering
Hi Carol,
So that would be something like this (if I have my macro syntax correct):
<mc;(%upmonth]11)*(%upday]19);ri(%upyear+1);ri(%upyear)>
If there's any chance that this <mc> macro can occur where text might wrap to a new line, then because the <ri> macro generates text and because there's some "quirks" with the <mc> macro (in this situation), it would be best in that situation to write this as follows:
<mc;(%upmonth]11)*(%upday]19);nul;skp><ri;%upyear+1><mc;(%upmonth[12)+(%upday[20);nul;skp><ri;%upyear>
Jonathan Dagresta
SDL XPP Engineering
I just revised the syntax in my post (from yesterday).
Something was nagging me when I posted, about my syntax not being completely correct, but I couldn't think of what I had that might be wrong.
I edited my post to change the '&' to a '*'. The '*' (multiply) character is what you use for an AND in XPP macro syntax (not an '&').
At least I remembered correctly that '+' (plus) was used for an OR.
Jonathan Dagresta
SDL XPP Engineering
Thank you, Steve and Jonathan. I'll try this as soon as the editors tell me how early they need the date to change to 2020.
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