[texhax] take out date from paper

Tom Schneider toms at ncifcrf.gov
Tue Sep 23 23:15:29 CEST 2008


> > Does anybody know how could I take out the date from a latex article? By
> > default it is putting in the date of "today" but I want to take it out.
> 
> Before \maketitle put \date{} %if you really want no date at all
> or else \date{whatever text you want to put in place of "today"}.
> 
> But, IMO, every good document has an author, a title, and a date :-)

Agreed, but I prefer the date to be the date I wrote the document
(along with a version number and file name), not the date that the
document happened to be printed.  The date of the document creation is
more useful.

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
  toms at ncifcrf.gov
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