On Tue, 18 May 1999, Amir Karger wrote:
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> That might be getting too complicated. How about a footnote or note inset
> that reads: "Revision $Revision$ of file $RCSfile$, last checked in by
> $Author$ on $Date$."?
Better. To bad for the '$' signs. What about having a warning not to
remove them, to avoid breaking the rcs behaviour.
>
> I could swear that one of the docs or example files used to have a TeX mode
> $Id$ line in the old days.
>
> > $Date$ sounds good to me. It is interesting to have it in paralelle of the
> > last edition date.
>
> Right. Although the date might be a bit misleading. Just because someone
> fixed a typo, doesn't mean that the document is really "up to date" for
> that date. Maybe we shouldn't have a date on the document, since people can
> look in the footnote for the version information.
That is where the $Log$ keyword might be usefull. And we are closer
and closer to the revision history inclusion :)
>
> -Amir
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>
Pierre-Henri BOINNARD
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