Questions tagged [expl3]
{expl3} is the programming "language" written for the LaTeX3 project. It is a library of common functions for storing and manipulating data and performing higher-level logical tasks than commonly provided for in TeX and LaTeX.
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Small bugs with a lightweight xcoffins-based mdframed alternative
I've recently tried to add page-break support to a lightweight xcoffins-based mdframes alternative I've made that started off with Put an xcoffin around an environment's content
It essentially ...
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How to create a command to plot a series of square lattices on a given line?
As the figure below, for a fixed line on a square-lattice layer with the scale of 30*30, it y-coordinate is 12, then I'd like to plot squares on the x-coordinates of 1,6-13,21,28-30, 13 square dots in ...
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Why would anyone use `\obeyedline`, what meaning should it have in the latest textlive distirbution?
Can anyone check with a grep (sorry I am on windows) what packages use obeyedline? I picked up a strange bug with l3doc and some code of mine which I cannot provide a minimal, as the code is really ...
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Uppercase & abbreviation dot in a field - string manipulation
I use a custom driver that contains the nameaddon field.
Below a wme:
\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{\jobname.bib}
@customa{test,
author = {Author},
nameaddon = {nameaddon},
title = {Title},
}
\...
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Supplying data to hyperref's pdfauthor: different command types give different results
The hyperref package allows a list of authors to be assigned to the pdfauthor option. For example, this works for me
\hypersetup{ pdfauthor={Me, Bobby McGee} }
The two authors are recognised in the ...
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Rounding dimensions to specific decimal places [duplicate]
In How to typeout dimensions in mm?, a custom command is suggested to typeset dimensions in a given unit. Sometimes, it is desirable to typeset the length to one or two decimal places
I want an output ...
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Recreate the functions environment from the l3doc class file
I am reviewing the l3doc.cls class file and I was very interested in recreating the functions margin environment as shown in the diagram below:
Note that I am only interested in the section that says ...
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Count sections inside collected environment
Here's what I'm trying to do:
I am trying to write an environment to conditionally hide its contents if a global bool is set. Sections inside the environment should still increase the section counter, ...
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LaTeX3: detecting default command inputs once stored in sequences
I don't understand how to identify elements in a sequence that have a default value assigned by a document command.
For example,
\documentclass{article}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\seq_new:N \l_blair_person_seq
\...
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Expand a `.cs` defined by key inside the function
I have a prop list in which I save items using the \addtoprop
command and then loop through the prop list and print it with the
\foreachinprop command. The \foreachinprop command has several
keys, but ...
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Function to output array in itemize
I tried to create a single function that would output inline and function return arrays represented as clists in itemize. I didn't succeed to create such function, only separate ones.
This function ...
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Add `.meta` key to existing keys (l3keys)
I have two list environments called myenv and myenv* where only the first one has four levels, the keys for the first one are stored in { mymodule / level-1 }, ...,{ mymodule /level-4 } and for the ...
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Creating a property list. I'm new to expl3
I try to learn expl3. I try to create a property list. The values should be numbered sequentially, but somehow I always save only the last value.
I would expect as output:
Test [1][2][3][2][1] (One,1)...
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Customize minipage to support spaces below it
I'm trying to create a custom minipage environment that allows spaces above and below it. I manage to control the spaces above using the @minipage shitch, but I can't find the modification to achieve ...
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expl3 \seq_set_split:Nnn in a \foreach loop
I'm trying to run \foreach over a nested list. For each iteration the value of the loop variable will be a list separated by semi-colons. To split the values I'm using \set_seq_list. It works when not ...
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