I have been messing around with this for a few hours today. TeX-Live
has a package called datetime2 which appears to offer all the formatting
options both Bruce and I would like to see. However, I cannot make it
work in Therion.
https://ctan.org/pkg/datetime2
If I add "\usepackage{datetime2}" to the "code tex-map" block in my
thconfig file, then Therion throws several compile errors. It basically
says it does not have any idea what that command means.
Therion also does not understand \today and \currenttime. These two
should be part of a base set of packages. The datetime2 package
overrides them with new definitions.
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Bill Gee
On 9/19/25 07:29, Bill Gee wrote:
I also have an interest in this. I have been using these TeX statements
in thconfig:
\the\legendtextsize\ Map generated at \the\time
\the\currentdate\medskip
\the\legendtextsize\ Therion version \the\thversion
Which results in a date output that looks like this:
Map generated at 51009/04/25
I am using Linux - Fedora 42. It would be nice to show the date in a
more readable format.
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Bill Gee
On 9/18/25 21:56, [email protected] wrote:
I have been using /currentdate to identify in an exported pdf map
header when the map was compiled.
\edef\tmp{\the\thversion} \ifx\tmp\empty \else %only write
version and date if version is not empty
{\the\legendtextsize\si\the\thversiontitleA:
\ss\the\thversiontitleB \ss\the\thversion}
{\the\legendtextsize\si\the\datetitle \si\the\currentdate\par}
\fi
It takes the system date and format as input. So I was using Windows
10 OS settings to format the date how I preferred it, in the case, d
Mmm YYYY.
Seems that Windows 11, my new OS does not have the ability to format
the system date in manner(s) that I find useful.
Is there a way for Therion to take the date provided by the OS and
reformat it?
Think I recall someone did offer up something a little cumbersome, but
it escapes me just now. Anyway, perhaps there is a better way today?
(Run Therion in a Win10 VM?)
Bruce
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