Re: [SL] print changeing time spans on invoices using recurrent transactions

[Marcus S. <li...@lo...>]

Hi Rolf,

Am Freitag, den 09.01.2009, 22:27 +0100 schrieb Rolf Stöckli:
> > I'd like to set a variable eg. %currentyear% in the description of an
> > article. This variable sould be replaced to 2009 when printing the
> > invoice. Any idea in which script I've to do the "regsub"?
> 
> I'd suggest that you don't edit any scripts because you loose the 
> changes with the next update. If you print the invoices in the month you 
> need them, you can edit the LaTeX template for example in the following way:
> 
> ...
> \usepackage[german]{babel}
> \usepackage{datetime}
> 
> \newdateformat{invoicedate}{%
> \monthname[\THEMONTH] \THEYEAR}
> 
> 
> ...
> 
> \invoicedate\today
> 
> The last command will print "Januar 2009" if your language is German.

Thanks a lot for your answer. This is exactly what I was looking for. A
howto that helped me with is datetime packge is found here:

http://theoval.sys.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/packages/datetime/datetime-manual.html

Ciao,
Marcus