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Will cruft from a previous compile ever change the final look of my document
Ok, this has been bugging me for a while; Will cruft left over from a previous run of LaTeX ever change how my document looks?
Would the following procedures ever give me different results:
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Advantages and disadvantages of fully expandable macros
As I currently understand them, fully-expandable macros are analogous to pure/effect-free functions in functional programming. Correspondingly, things that are not expandable, such as \def, are ...
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\expandafter within a \begingroup … \endgroup [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What does \begingroup\expandafter…\endgroup do?
In many of Heiko Oberdiek's packages one sees this type of construction:
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LaTeX alternative (amongst the “TeX style dialects”)?
I'm confused about the different TeX "dialects", and can help to wonder if any of the others is better than LaTeX that I'm using today.
Let's say I would like to write a document that would contain
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When should one use \begingroup instead of \bgroup?
Is there ever a case when the use of \begingroup is preferred to \bgroup? Obviously, \bgroup is necessary in cases where you need to have balanced braces and thus cannot use {, but when is it ...
