[texhax] Fwd: reading latex version number at compile time

Daniel Greenhoe dgreenhoe at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 04:59:53 CET 2015


I thanked David for his very useful answer a day or so ago; but
looking back it seems I only sent the email to his email account
directly, and not to the texhax email list in general. Many apologies
for the oversight :(

Dan


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Daniel Greenhoe <dgreenhoe at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: [texhax] reading latex version number at compile time
To: David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com>


Thank you for yet another very prompt and useful answer. Very amazing.

Dan

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:11 AM, David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> wrote:
> \fmtversion will have the latex version which you can add via \hypersetup.
>
> xdvipdfmx will add its version to the pdf automatically, if I run
> xelatex on anything
> pdffinfo reports
>
> Creator:         XeTeX output 2015.11.14:0006
> Producer:       xdvipdfmx (20150315)
>
>
> David
>
>
> On 14 November 2015 at 00:02, Daniel Greenhoe <dgreenhoe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there any way to read the latex and/or dvipdfmx version numbers at
>> compile time and pass the string(s) to the metadata of the final pdf
>> file?
>>
>> For example, if I use the <hyperref> package with this command in the preamble
>> \hypersetup{%
>>   pdfcreator={string1},
>>   pdfproducer={string2},
>>   }
>> ,can string1 and string2 somehow be written to at compile time to
>> contain the version number(s)?
>>
>> Many many thanks in advance,
>> Dan
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