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Questions about `\cs_new:...` and friends and their TeX relatives regarding global, local, long, nopar, protected, expandable and naming
This question is two-fold. Unfortunately, one side is opinionated, i.e. something to close-vote, so I put that part at the end and hope no one notices... The other side (coming first) are serious ...
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Parse standard balanced group within verbatim context
Say I want to write a custom parser which reads characters in a verbatim context, where the parser argument should be split into several kinds of tokens:
Ordinary characters, i.e. all characters ...
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Equivalent for \bgroup \egroup in LaTeX3
I am trying to apply a expl3 function to the contents of an environment. In LaTeX2e this can be achieved by using \bgroup and \egroup.
In expl3, something does not work.
I would expect the following ...
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Create a fake label ref using list
Hello everyone once again, after having resolved my doubt regarding the use of \label and \ref. Reading the comments, I have noticed that in many occasions do not need to use the referencing system, ...
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\tl_replace_all:Nnn recurse subgroups
Suppose I had a token list variable containing abc{ab{abc}c}. I want to replace every occurrence of b with d. As you can see there are subgroups containing b which I also want to have replaced, so ...
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Is there a 'good' way to make 'local' changes outside of a group in expl3?
I have the following function:
\cs_new_protected:Nn \termmenu_prompt:NN
{
\__termmenu_write_out:N #1
\group_begin:
\ior_get_str:NN \c_term_ior \choice
\tl_gset_eq:NN #2 \choice
\group_end:
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How do I get a value out of a group?
I've just recovered from my first real foray into LaTeX3 programming. It was ... an experience. Not a completely unpleasant one and once I'd gotten used to the syntax then I found it a lot easier ...
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