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Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: varsfromjobname Author's name: Uwe Ziegenhagen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/varsfromjobname Summary description: extracts tokens from jobname License type: lppl
Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- varsfromjobname.sty extracts variables from the name of the LaTeX file.
If the name of the file consists of tokens separated by hyphen, the package offers the following commands:
getonefromjobname gettwofromjobname getthreefromjobname getfourfromjobname getfivefromjobname getsixfromjobname getsevenfromjobname geteightfromjobname getninefromjobname
Usage:
a) Save your LaTeX-file under a name such as 2008-04-14-ziegenhagen.tex
b) Load the package by putting usepackage{varsfromjobname} in the preamble of your document
c) Use the commands given above to address the specific parts of the filename.
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