$$ Outside

Use the $$ Outside option (previously called $$ Everyday) to display weekdays in every position where a $$ minicalendar weekday token appears in a GridTemplate, including outside days.

This similar to showing weekday names on outside days but, as can be seen in the examples above, this option is independent of the outside days option used to specify if, and how, @ minicalendar date tokens are displayed on outside days.

When you turn the $$ Outside option on, then the drop-down list, shown on the right, is enabled.

This drop-down list, as shown in the image on the right, is similar to the one which is used for the @ outside days options, and it allows you to specify which $$ will be displayed, when they correspond to a date that is outside the month.

$$=@ Format

Use the $$=@ Format option to specify that, in a one-line MiniCalendar, the formatting of each of the $$ markers should be the same as that of its corresponding @ marker.

As the, slightly contrived, example on the right shows, this allows the formatting of $$ weekdays to have all the options that are available to @ dates tokens.

w# Everyday

If you are starting your MiniCalendar on a fixed date, such as the first of the month, you do not know in advance where the Mondays will occur, and cannot place the w# minicalendar week number tokens in a specific position in your GridTemplate.

The w# Everyday option is used to specify that there is one w# token for each and every possible date of the MiniCalendar, as in the example above, so that Q++Studio can determine which of the w# should be blank and which ones should display the week number, as shown on the right.

By default, when using the w# Everyday option, it is the w# markers corresponding to Mondays that are converted to the week number, as shown above.

If you wish to change this behavior, for example to show the week number on a Thursday, the horizontal center of the week, as shown on the right, then you can click on the ellipsis button near the w# Everyday option.

This brings up a week numbers options dialog that lets you specify the days on which the w# markers should be replaced by a week number, as well as what to do when the specified weekday is not included in the partial first or last weeks of the month.

Special Tabs

Use the Special Tabs field to open the special tabulations dialog and specify the tabulation positions to be used for all the elements of a one-line MiniCalendar (@ dates, $$ weekdays, and w# week numbers).

The Special Tabs options require the MiniCalendar in your GridTemplate to have a tab character insertion minicalendar modifier and a tilde (~) at each position where a tabulation character should be inserted, as shown in the example on the right.

One common use of the Special Tabs options is to add some extra separation between Sundays and Mondays to visually separate the weeks of a one-line MiniCalendar, as in the example below.

Another example is to have uniformly-spaced tabs, but with a separation between tabs which depends on whether the month has 28, 29, 30 or 31, so that each month is equally wide, regardless of the number of days it contains.

The effect of the Special Tabs option will not be visible in the minicalendar preview, only in the final output file.