Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Monday,  2 May 2016 at 13:41, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Is there a way, that I can have this dynamically in the Title of the
>> document, or in a footer after LaTeX export (using fancyhdr)?
>
> Maybe something along these lines:
>
>   @@latex:\rfoot{@@ Version src_sh{sed -n '/^Version: /s///p' ./DESCRIPTION} @@latex:}@@
>
> immediately after the first headline?  Assumes fancyhdr.

Thanks - I am combining this with Sharon's suggestion.

Very nice,

Rainer

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