Re: Date in the footer and Headers/Footers/Titles

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 08:06:30AM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Chip,
>
>> As a nooby if I'm looking for info on adding a date to the footer I  
>> start by
>> searching for Footer in the index of the LM, but it's not there.
>
> That should be the first thing to get fixed!  =)
> Graham/Carl: who/what decides which doc elements get an index entry?

Well, we ran out of volunteer time during GDP.  Ralph has been
adding more entries after that, and I think he's almost finished
NR 1.

So... it'll probably be about six months until he gets to NR 3.
Of course, I'd encourage him not to bother doing NR 3 until it's
been rewritten, so I guess we're looking at a year or more.


Feel free to send a quick-fix patch.

>> With all that said here is the code for the footer that solves the  
>> problem
>
> Excellent; hopefully that will now be added to the docs at the correct 
> place.

BLOODY MAO NO!!!

... well, depending on what you consider "the correct place".  The
correct place is LSR.  LSR, as a snippet submitted by a user,
namely Chip.  This requires ZERO effort on our part, and FIVE
MINUTES of effort on his part.  Once he's done that, all future
users who have this question can search LSR, find his snippet, and
be happy.

Now, this snippet won't get tagged with "docs", because we already
have two perfectly good snippets which show how to do this.  But I
have no desire to edit / remove non-doc snippets from LSR, so rest
assured that anybody searching LSR will find that snippet.

- Graha