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From: jbtubman@arc.ab.ca (Jim Tubman)
Subject: Integrating RCS and LaTeX
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.205440.23660@arc.ab.ca>
Organization: Alberta Research Council
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 20:54:40 GMT

I have been doing version control on my LaTeX documents using the
Revision Control System (RCS) from Walter F. Tichy of Purdue
University.  RCS has a feature that allows you to put certain
information (such as dates, revision numbers, etc.) into the body of a
text file by including a keyword between dollar signs.  Thus
$Revision$ gets turned into $Revision: 1.2$ in the body of the text
when processed by the RCS programs.

I'd like to use this to put version numbers into my LaTeX documents,
but unfortunately, LaTeX interprets the dollar signs as signifying an
in-text formula.

Has anyone who uses both RCS and LaTeX come up with a good work-around
to this problem that they'd be willing to share?  Thanks.

--Jim Tubman
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James B. Tubman				 Alberta Research Council
Expert Systems Researcher                Advanced Computing & Engineering Dept.
jbtubman@noah.arc.ab.ca			 3rd Floor