[texhax] Information about document in the document

Tom Schneider toms at ncifcrf.gov
Wed Oct 8 15:38:27 CEST 2008


Tom:

> > This is one way of doing it in a linux system
> > 
> > \documentclass{article}
> > \usepackage{calc}
> > \usepackage{fancyhdr}
> > 
> > \fancyhead[L]{%
> >    \makebox[\taglen-4cm][r]{%
> >      \small\ttfamily
> >      \printfilename \today\ \printtime}}
> > \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
> > 
> > \newcommand{\filename}{\jobname.tex}
> > \newcommand{\printfilename}{%
> >     \immediate\write18{pwd > path.tex}{\input{path}\llap/\filename}}

See the 'pwd' there?  That's 'print working directory', a command
under all unix operating systems such as Linux.  It probably doesn't
exist in Bill's brain.  However perhaps you can put unix on your
machine (ubuntu!) or make a unix platform (Cygwin) in which you can
run the program.

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
  permanent email: toms at alum.mit.edu
  http://www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/


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