Automatically get version, date for manual #186
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As discussed in #81 and #87, we would like to have the manual automatically update the version number and date in
\maketitle
according to the\ProvidesPackage
declaration ofbeamerthememetropolis.sty
. Normally, we'd do this with\fileversion
and\filedate
after calling\GetFileInfo{beamerthememetropolis}
, but unfortunately\GetFileInfo{file}
does not work unlessfile
is loaded during the LaTeX run. This is not an option for us sincebeamerthememetropolis
depends on thebeamer
class.As it turns out, there is a package to solve this exact problem:
readprov
provides a command to read a file's metadata without actually loading it. This pull request adopts this solution.