Question

The title section of my LaTeX documents usually look like

\title{Title}
\author{Me}
%\date{}      %// Today's date will appear when this is commented out.

\begin{document}
\maketitle

I’d really like to add another line in the title section for a version number:

\title{Title}
\author{Me}
\version{v1.2}
%\date{}      %// Today's date will appear when this is commented out.

\begin{document}
\maketitle

It doesn’t necessarily have to be a command named version, but how can I get a version number to appear after the date (which is after the author)? I can manually set the version number.

So:

Title

Me

4/13/2010

v1.2

Answer 1

My answer is probably too late for the original thread, but Latex has a very interesting package called vrsion (there is no ‘e’), which is part of the standard distribution. Essentially, it numbers the .dvi file, i.e the number is increased every time Latex is run.

Personally, I use this as a simple work around for the lack of a human-friendly document version number from Git. Not ideal, but sometimes I have multiple copies of my documents and it helps avoid some confusion.