Comments for Thomas Pellard http://www.thomaspellard.info Syntax Error! Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:43:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Automatically calcultate your age with LaTeX by Logan West http://www.thomaspellard.info/2010/10/automatically-calcultate-your-age-with-latex/#comment-217 Logan West Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:43:28 +0000 http://www.thomaspellard.info/?p=241#comment-217 MWE: documentclass{article} %counters to calculate my age. %Place `theage' in the document where you want your age to appear. %year counter, month counter, and day counter newcounter{dobyear}setcounter{dobyear}{1985} newcounter{dobmonth}setcounter{dobmonth}{3} newcounter{dobday}setcounter{dobday}{24} %calculate number of years newcounter{age}setcounter{age}{theyear}addtocounter{age}{-thedobyear} %condition to test for birthmonth, then birth day. ifnumthemonth>thedobmonthelse% ifnumtheday<thedobdayaddtocounter{age}{-1}fifi begin{document} I am theage years old today. end{document} MWE:

documentclass{article}

%counters to calculate my age.
%Place ‘theage’ in the document where you want your age to appear.
%year counter, month counter, and day counter
newcounter{dobyear}setcounter{dobyear}{1985}
newcounter{dobmonth}setcounter{dobmonth}{3}
newcounter{dobday}setcounter{dobday}{24}
%calculate number of years
newcounter{age}setcounter{age}{theyear}addtocounter{age}{-thedobyear}
%condition to test for birthmonth, then birth day.
ifnumthemonth>thedobmonthelse%
ifnumtheday<thedobdayaddtocounter{age}{-1}fifi

begin{document}
I am theage years old today.
end{document}

]]> Comment on Automatically calcultate your age with LaTeX by Logan West http://www.thomaspellard.info/2010/10/automatically-calcultate-your-age-with-latex/#comment-216 Logan West Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:36:56 +0000 http://www.thomaspellard.info/?p=241#comment-216 I wanted to do something similar and came up with a simpler method, using basic TeX commands: %counters to calculate my age. %Place `theage' in the document where you want your age to appear. %year counter, month counter, and day counter newcounter{dobyear}setcounter{dobyear}{1985} newcounter{dobmonth}setcounter{dobmonth}{3} newcounter{dobday}setcounter{dobday}{24} %calculate number of years newcounter{age}setcounter{age}{theyear}addtocounter{age}{-thedobyear} %condition to test for birthmonth, then birth day. ifnumthemonth>thedobmonthelse% ifnumtheday<thedobdayaddtocounter{age}{-1}fifi I wanted to do something similar and came up with a simpler method, using basic TeX commands:

%counters to calculate my age.
%Place ‘theage’ in the document where you want your age to appear.
%year counter, month counter, and day counter
newcounter{dobyear}setcounter{dobyear}{1985}
newcounter{dobmonth}setcounter{dobmonth}{3}
newcounter{dobday}setcounter{dobday}{24}
%calculate number of years
newcounter{age}setcounter{age}{theyear}addtocounter{age}{-thedobyear}
%condition to test for birthmonth, then birth day.
ifnumthemonth>thedobmonthelse%
ifnumtheday<thedobdayaddtocounter{age}{-1}fifi

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