[OS X TeX] Re: draftcopy "weirdness"

[John B. Thoo]

On Apr 12, 2011, at 12:00 PM, in MacOSX-TeX Digest, Vol 42, Issue 11
Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:01:00 +0200
> From: Claus Gerhardt <claus.gerhardt at uni-heidelberg.de>
> 
> I wonder how I could get the code wrong years ago or ifthenelse is treating "<" as "â?¤"; of course it should read
> 
> \ifthenelse{\value{minutes}<10}{\thehours :0\theminutes}{\thehours:\theminutes}}
> 
> Anyone who wants a trailing 0 in front a single digit hour has to do it himself.
> 
> Claus
> 
> 
> On Apr 12, 2011, at 16:32, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
> 
>> I remembered that we had this discussion some time ago, I guess Alain brought up this question, and my solution was
>> 
>> \usepackage{ifthenelse}
>> \newcounter{hours}\newcounter{minutes}
>> \newcommand{\printtime}{%
>> \setcounter{hours}{\time/60}%
>> \setcounter{minutes}{\time-\value{hours}*60}%
>> \ifthenelse{\value{minutes}<9}{\thehours :0\theminutes}{\thehours:\theminutes}}
>> 
>> At least I assume that this was my solution, based of course on the Latex Companion, since the above code is part of my personal package.
>> 
>> Claus

Claus, I modified Peter Vamos's code with suggestion and it works beautifully (i.e., after I changed \usepackage{ifthenelse} to \usepackage{ifthen}).  I also added a line to put a zero in the hours < 10.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% By Peter Vamos with contribution by Claus Gerhardt

\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\newcounter{hours}\newcounter{minutes}
\newcommand\printtime{%
  \setcounter{hours}{\time/60}%
  \setcounter{minutes}{\time-\value{hours}*60}%
\ifthenelse{\value{hours}<10}{0\thehours}{\thehours}
\ifthenelse{\value{minutes}<10}{:0\theminutes}{:\theminutes}}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\usepackage[draft]{pdfdraftcopy}
\draftstring{%
\begin{minipage}{17cm}
\begin{center}
%\  DRAFT \quad\today\ \printtime
  DRAFT  \\ {\fontsize{48}{17}\selectfont \today, \printtime}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
}


Thank you very much.

---John.

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