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### Predefined lists to loop through by \@for or \foreach [duplicate]

since I needed a loop command to implement a ton of graphics more easily, I searched the web for options. I soon found \foreach from the tikz package to do what I want. But even though this worked, I ...
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### Looping through elements in a sequence [duplicate]

In a follow up of Highlighting words only the first time they appear it was suggested to use \seq_use:Nn to display the content of a sequence. It works really nice but it concatenates the items with a ...
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### How can I specify a long list of math operators?

The preambles of my LaTeX documents often include many many lines of \DeclareMathOperator instructions, e.g. \DeclareMathOperator{\Rep}{Rep} \DeclareMathOperator{\Tet}{Tet} ...
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### Writing a table with equally spaced columns, based on the widest column

Friends, I'm trying to generate a table in which I have all columns equally spaced (same width). In my case, the width for all columns would be the width of the widest column of the table: ...
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### What is the best way to scan over a list of somethings?

It seems that a common operation needed when defining new commands is to scan over a list of arguments (separated e.g. by a comma, but maybe by something else) and do something with each argument in ...
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### Parse comma-separated list of command names with spaces

Problem This question is related to How can I specify a long list of math operators? – but with a twist: I want to allow spaces in in the comma-separated list, like so: \newacronyms{acm, ams, cpu, ...
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### Special case for last element with \foreach

I want to create a function that generates a list of equation references from a comma delimited input list. e.g. \erefs{eq:first, eq:second, eq:third} \erefs{eq:first} yields, the following: ...
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### Iterating through comma-separated arguments

I've looked all over and can't seem to find a succinct answer to this question. Is it possible (and if so, how) to create a command that will iterate through its `arguments' of comma-separated values ...
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### parse variable length comma separated list into command

I've been trying to modify the solution here into a LaTeX3 command that takes a variable length comma separated list of numbers and an optional argument (a unit) and prints the square root of the sum ...
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### Automatically include a sequence of images

I want to include a sequence of images in Beamer (although it can be in another type of document). Something similar to the option Photo Album in LibreOffice and MS PowerPoint. What I did is to make ...
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### How to fill a dynamically generated table with dynamic content?

how do I generate a tabular dynamically while filling it with dynamic data? Example: Let's say I have \def\N{10} and I want to generate a table with \N columns, where the top cell of each column ...
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### Can I tab inside of align environment?

I currently have this ugly equation: The green alignment is just like I want it. The Red one is what I would like to get, but I don't know how. Here is my MWE: \documentclass[a4paper]{scrartcl} ...
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### Display a sequence of materials with chemical symbols

I frequently have to describe a sequence of materials in a layer stack such as the following: Ta/Cu/Ta/Cu/Co−Fe−B/MgO/Co−Fe−B/Ta/Ru/Au The dash indicates an alloy of unspecified composition. My ...