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Reliable code for automatic \noindent after specific environments?
There are a number of environments which I never want to follow up with an indented paragraph. itemize, enumerate, theorem, definition, etc. I know there are people who think this is bad style. But ...
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How to append code to a section?
In my scrartcl document I want to change the spacing between sections and the first paragraph. Since I am using the parskip package, the parskip is set to a non-zero value. The \section command uses ...
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Make a PDF bookmark point towards title
I've been using the bookmark package to add custom PDF bookmarks to my thesis. More specifically, I started using this package because I didn't want the the ToC, LoF and LoT to appear in the ToC, but ...
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How to redefine or patch the '\newcommand' command?
The Problem
There are several packages I would like to write which require me to redefine the \newcommand (\renewcommand, etc.) command so I can track or change the commands that authors subsequently ...
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Patching commands to remove surrounding whitespace
I'm using the todonotes package to add little margin notes to my text, however writing
Hello\todo{test} World!
removes the interword space as is already pointed out in this question. So I tried
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Is there a workaround for this limitation of \patchcmd?
The \patchcmd command of the well-known etoolbox package has a minor limitation: Patching seems to fail whenever \patchcmd is used in the argument of another command and the search/replacement texts ...
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error when patching with etoolbox \apptocmd: “the patching command seems to be nested in the argument to some other command”
The \apptocmd command from etoolbox is giving me an error I don't understand. I know how to work around the error in this particular case, but I'd like to understand what it's complaining about so ...
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Modifying .sty files?
Yesterday I did some changes in the layout of my TeX document. I couldn't accomplish the changes until I opened the .sty files and modified some of their code. I am sure this is not the best idea. For ...
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Can I redefine a command to contain itself?
I'd like to "add to" an existing command by writing something like
\renewcommand{\somecommand}{\begin{something}\somecommand\end{something}}
but (not surprisingly) I get errors about being "too ...
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biblatex: Is it possible to patch macros created with \newbibmacro?
This question led to a new feature in a package:
xpatch
The etoolbox package provides various tools that "are useful to hook into or modify existing code" (etoolbox manual, section 3.4). The ...
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How does one append material to a token list?
Several times, the floatrow package uses \newtoks which (according to this website) means that a token register is allocated. An example code snippet is
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Change line spacing for normal text, but not in tabular or verse
\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing
I used above two lines to change the spacing in my document. This changes the spacing of the entire document.
My requirement is to change the line spacing in ...
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Hooking into the header/footer mechanism
I have a switch I'd like to turn off for the headers and footers but keep on for the main body text. What commands actually tell TeX to write the headers and footers after the body text has been set ...
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How to patch a floating environment so that the patched command floats
I'm using etoolbox to patch some environments. I want to use \AtBeginEnvironment{table}{\marginpar{foo}} to put something in the margin by the float. But the marginpar is typeset where the environment ...
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Using ted (or another package) instead of etoolbox for patching commands in memoir?
Another question related to my university's odd ToC style requirements. Regular chapters in the ToC need to have all-caps titles, and appendices need regular-case titles. I have a perfectly elegant ...
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What is the right way to redefine macros defined by babel?
If I want to use the babel package and redefine a macro such as \contentsname, what is the right way to go about this? Just putting \renewcommand in the preamble doesn't work.
This sort of works
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How to patch a package
I have a document that uses symbols both from the marvosym package as well as the eurosym package. There are two commands that clash and I get an error message (due to \newcommand being used and ...
