On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid> wrote: > Will Parsons wrote: >> In a document I'm writing, I would like to print the date of the last >> edit in the title page. I've discovered [Insert => Date], which looks >> like it might be what I want (does it update when I save the document >> again?), but the format is "07/16/14", which is a common format for >> North America (which is where I am), but I would prefer a different >> format, preferably "14 June 2014", or even the ISO standard >> "2014-07-14", but I can't figure out how to adjust this. Is this >> configurable via LyX, or do I have to do some LaTeX magic? > > Of course, what I meant was '"16 June 2014", or even the ISO standard > "2014-07-16"', (which I guess illustrates that even *I* find the > format "07/16/14" confusing, used to it though I am...
Hi Will, you can do this with Insert > File > External Material. It is not intuitive at all (what does a data have to do with inserting a file?), but it is done that way because it was easy to implement. In the dialog, you don't have to choose a file. Just change "Template" to "Date". Note that the implementation of this is just a plain text file, so if you want to modify it to your preferences, you don't need to recompile LyX. Take a look at lib/external_templates and the converter for date. See Help > Customization for more information. Using LaTeX in ERT is another option and might be more robust in my opinion. Scott
