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