copyrightStart

copyrightStart

ReSpec knows to include a copyright year that matches the publishDate in the copyright notice. However, for documents developed over a period of several years it is preferable to indicate the first year during which the copyright started by setting this option.

Note that this can always be safely specified since if copyrightStart is the same as the publishDate's year it is ignored.

The following appears as "Copyright © 1977-2016".

var respecConfig = {
  copyrightStart: 1977,
  publishDate: "01-01-2016",
};