%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed
%%
%% Example 8-3-24 on page 509.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}
%
% set up a fixed date for the example:
  \day=29 \month=2 \year=2004

\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[english,hebrew]{babel}
\usepackage{hebcal}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\hebday \par             \Hebrewtoday \par
\selectlanguage{english} \today: \Hebrewtoday
\selectlanguage{hebrew}  \hebdate{8}{11}{1997}
\end{document}
