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The different meanings of LaTeX's \stop command
we know that
\stop
will cause LaTeX to stop parsing and output what it has processed up to this command.
But then I discovered another way to use it, as demonstrated in this minimum working ...
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xstring character comparison and \meaning
\documentclass[pdftex,a4paper,12pt,oneside]{book}%
\usepackage{xstring}
\begin{document}
\newcommand{\tmpa}{}
\newcommand{\tmpb}{}
\newcommand{\tmpc}{}
\renewcommand{\tmpc}{abcdefg} \noindent ...
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Every possible \meaning that a token can have
In the context of a debugging package that I am writing, I need to analyse an arbitrary token in the input stream. What are the possible outcomes of \meaning<token>?
Macro: (\protected) ...
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Introspection and reflection with LaTeX/TeX macros
Below is a short program that can use \meaning and \string to let a combination of LaTeX and TeX commands to print out the listing of macros. Unsurprisingly (nothing can surprise me with TeX any ...
