Title Information in LaTex:
There are various options for putting version information into a LaTex document, depending on the page style that you choose to compose the document content in. The page styles are listed at http://www.personal.ceu.hu/tex/pagestyl.htm.
In line with the recommendations VIF has made for other text documents, the framework suggests a front page or title sheet that contains all relevant version information will make version identification much clearer.
To set this in LaTex, use:
\maketitle
This command generates a title page - except in the 'article' style, where the title normally goes at the top of the first page. THis command should go after the following standard commands:
\author
\date
\thanks
\title
The \thanks command produces a footnote to the title.
\thanks{text}
For example:
\title{Article of Version Identification \thanks{Final Verison}} \author{D. Puplett\thanks{on behalf of VIF project}}
Comments:
You can insert comments into the LaTeX input (*.tex) file. Anything following a percent sign (%) until the end of the line is ignored by the LaTeX processor. This command could be used by an author to keep personal track of version as they are created, without this information necessarily being made openly available. This could help an author keep track until they are ready to disseminate, at which point we would recommend putting version information in the 'thanks' command.
To add a hidden comment, use the % symbol, which ends a line without generating a space; an end-of-line in LaTeX input is normally equivalent to a space. Thus, for example, it allows one to split a word over lines without inserting a break. For example;
'this is the %finished% version identification framework'
would produce 'this is the version identification framework'
Follow-Up:
For more on using LaTeX, please see here:
http://www.latex-project.org/intro.html.