Gildas Hamel asked:

\subsection{${1:`date +%A`, `date +%d` `date +%B` `date +%Y`}} which gives me the date as follows in my files (example):

\subsection{Wednesday, 10 October 2007}

Just use a "big" format string for a single date command:

date +"%A, %d %B %Y"

should do the trick.

Cheers, Paul

On Oct 10, 2007, at 11:42 PM, Gildas Hamel wrote:

I'd like to automate the date entries for a journal I write in "LaTeX" and have come up with this snippet:

\subsection{${1:`date +%A`, `date +%d` `date +%B` `date +%Y`}}

Try: `date "+%A, %d %B %Y"`

which gives me the date as follows in my files (example):

\subsection{Wednesday, 10 October 2007}

It works--that is, it gives me the spaces I want between the elements of the date, but it looks cumbersome to me to invoke the date command repeatedly to get these spaces and I wonder if someone could supply a more elegant way to get the same result. Thanks. --Gildas Hamel

Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College