On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 07:54:48AM +0000, Alexis Huxley wrote:
> Unfortunately these (in RCS/CVS and SVN case) expand to the
> corresponding value *plus* the keyword text, i.e. not just:
>
> 1.2.3.4
>
> but:
>
> $Revision 1.2.3.4$
>
> which may look a bit messier than than you consider acceptable. In this
> case maybe you need to 'make' a stripped version. I.e. edit mydoc.lyx,
> and then use a Makefile to 'sed' this to mydoc-not-for-editing.lyx,
> and then lyx --export that to a printable format.
Sounds a bit complicated. Why not using TeX?
\def\striprevision$Revision #1${#1}
\striprevision$Revision$
should produce 1.2.3.4 if something (e.g. RCS) replaces
'$Revision$' by '$Revision 1.2.3.4$.
Andre'
