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What is the best practice for arithmetic operations specially for package/class writing?
There are some possibilities to execute arithmetic operations inside a package or class.
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TeX supports \advance, \multiply or \divide to execute arithmetic operations. However the syntax is more ...
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What are best practices for package authors to deal with package conflicts?
One occasionally encountered problem with LaTeX is incompatibility between packages. What are best practices for package authors to deal with package conflicts?
For example:
What is the best way to ...
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How to write overlay-specification–aware macros that work w/o the beamer class
The LaTeX beamer class provides with \newcommand<> and \newenvironment<> an interface to define own commands that can deal with beamer's overlay specifications. Internally, commands ...
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How to make a CTAN package MiKTeX friendly?
I've heard that it is difficult to install my new statrep package using MiKTeX. The dtx file is self-extracting, but I think MiKTeX doesn't expect to work with a dtx file.
Can someone provide a ...
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Version number for a bundle
I need some advice. I am going to bundle a package of mine (lets say its named foo, currently v2.0a) with two not yet released packages (therefore both v0.1).
I am unsure which version number the ...
