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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Sorry for the late reply...

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> I have set a line
>       <apply|set-footer|printed: <date|%Y%m%d -- %H:%M>>
> in my .ts file to have the current date on any version I print out. Now, I
> realize that the whole footer with yesterdays date expanded is written in
>       ~/.TeXmacs/system/cache/__mytext__
> and taken from there instead of being recalculated.
>
> Is my approach generally faulty, or is it a matter of the cache being
> over-ambitious?

Yes, this approach may be faulty: the values of environment
variables in style files are cached and set-footer precisely
sets some environment variables. You should rather define
an initialization macro with the code you mention and
call it at the start of your document.