[OS X TeX] print the latex source filename

[Alessandro Languasco]

>> A bit nicer is this block of code from Heiko Oberdiek for  
>> "branding" the pdfTeX output also with the date of the source (it  
>> also uses \jobname):
>>
>>    \makeatletter							% following code needs hyperref
>>    \@ifundefined{pdffilemoddate}{%
>>       \PackageError{sourcetime}{%
>>         pdfTeX >= 1.30.0 required%
>>       }%
>>       \let\pdffilemoddate\@gobble
>>    }{}%
>>    \newcommand*{\SourceFile}[1]{%
>>      \edef\@SourceFileDate{\pdffilemoddate{#1}}%
>>      % empty in case of errors, but don't harm in next comparison
>>      \ifnum\pdfstrcmp{\@SourceFileDate}{\@CurrentSourceFileDate}>0 %
>>        \let\@CurrentSourceFileDate\@SourceFileDate
>>        \expandafter\@ParseDate\@SourceFileDate\@nil
>>        \hypersetup{%
>>          pdfcreationdate={\@SourceFileDate},%
>>          pdfmoddate={\@SourceFileDate}%
>>        }%
>>        \PackageInfo{sourcetime}{%
>>          Using file `#1'%
>>        }%
>>      \fi
>>    }
>>    \newcommand*{\@CurrentSourceFileDate}{}
>>    \expandafter\def\expandafter\@ParseDate 
>> \detokenize{D:}#1#2#3#4#5#6#7#8{%
>>      \year=#1#2#3#4\relax
>>      \month=#5#6\relax
>>      \day=#7#8\relax
>>      \@ParseTime
>>    }
>>    \def\@ParseTime #1#2#3#4#5\@nil{%
>>      \time=\numexpr #1#2 * 60 + #3#4\relax
>>    }
>>    \makeatother
>>    \SourceFile{\jobname.tex}
>
> I haven't been able to make this code work. What does it do compared  
> to:
>
> \documentclass[11pt]{book}
> 			\usepackage{calc}
> 			\newcounter{hours}\newcounter{minutes}
> 			\newcommand{\printtime}%
> 			{%begin definition
> 				\setcounter{hours}{\time/60}%
> 				\setcounter{minutes}{\time-\value{hours}*60}%
> 				\thehours:\theminutes%
> 			}%end definition
> \begin{document}
> 	This file was saved as \jobname \hspace{1mm} on \today \hspace{1mm}  
> at \printtime.
> \end{document}



Dear Peter and Alain

thanks for the code.  I wasn't able to use Peter's suggestion... but  
this is not a problem for me because
I was looking for something easier (like Alain's solution).

thanks again.
Bests,
	Alessandro