[texhax] take out date from paper

Tom Schneider toms at ncifcrf.gov
Wed Sep 24 10:53:44 CEST 2008


> > I prefer the date to be the date I wrote the document
> 
> So do I : I let LaTex use "today" while I'm revising, and replace it by a 
> fixed date when I decide ithe document is ready to release.

I've been getting into keeping a record of what I'm doing.  So in a
recently submitted paper named emmgeo I have:

\newcommand{\theversion}%
   {{version = 1.61 of emmgeo.tex 2008 Aug 12 }}
% 2008 Aug 12, 1.61: margin_control - remove top_margin PRL SUBMITTED VERSION
...
% 2008 Apr 26, 1.01: more typing
% 2008 Apr 26, 1.00: origin from handwritten sheets.

and then

\date{\theversion}

By doing it this way I can put \theversion anywhere I want and yet the
version numbers line up nicely.

I have a tool that saves and compresses the current version of the
paper according to the version number (eg emmgeo.tex.1.61.Z) in my
backup files.  So I have some idea when I modified the paper and it's
history.

Tom

  Dr. Thomas D. Schneider
  National Institutes of Health
  National Cancer Institute
  Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program
  Molecular Information Theory Group
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
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