Re: How to put current date in footer?

[Arvid Grøtting]

Alain <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi NG
>
> I'm trying to have a timestamp in the footer of every page. nice would
> also be to have subversion revision as metainformation printed.
> I'm quite new to Lilypnd...
>
> How can I do that?
>
> I've tried it the LaTeX way:
> \paper{
>   ...
>   oddFooterMarkup = "Compiled: \today"
> }
>
> but like this it doesn't work.

You need a bit of Scheme, the Lilypond manuals and the Guile manual.
Try something like this:

%% ---- cut here ----->8

\version "2.11.43"

revision = #"$Revision: 1.2 $"

today = #(strftime "%Y-%m-%d" (localtime (current-time)))

\paper {
  oddFooterMarkup = #(ly:format "Compiled ~a by ~a (~a)"
                                today (cuserid) revision)
}

\score {

  \context Score <<
    \relative c'' { c c c c }
  >>
  \layout {}
 }

%% ---- cut here ----->8

Cheers,

-- 

Arvid