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Can Texinfo's @value macro be made to work in the filename argument to @xref and friends?
Given a file xref-and-value.texi with contents:
\input texinfo @c -*- TeX-PDF-mode: t; -*-
@setfilename xref-and-value.info
@settitle @code{@@xref} and @code{@@value} in \pdftex
@set fngccint ...
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Expansion in \numexpr…\relax versus \pdfstrcmp
The \numexpr...\relax construction in eTeX allows to evaluate numerical expressions, and it expands tokens fully as it goes.
The \pdfstrcmp{...}{...} construction in pdfTeX lets us compare two lists ...
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Can (pdf)LaTeX recognize text strings and replace (expand) them?
I'd like LaTeX to replace e^ with \mathrm{e}^. I know I could just make a macro \e that does this, but I know I'll forget using it..
Can LaTeX find and replace and replace letter combinations (I ...
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Expandable full expansion of tokens that preserves catcodes
Is it possible to fully expand tokens in an expandable manner and preserves category codes? I'd like to do this just using pdfTeX.
I'm looking for something that would work like this:
\def\foo{foo}
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