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How to check if token is a macro?
I am thinking about possibility to parse LaTeX document. What I really need is to track category codes of symbols. As I understand TeX expands all of macros in his mouth and tracks changes of category ...
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Arbitrary text parsing from a separate file
I'm still very new to the world of TeX, so please bear with me if this question is unclear or has been asked before. I'm starting to figure my way through TeX and the millions of plugins and ...
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What is considered a token for non-standard input encodings?
When I use an input encoding to (La)TeX that allows me to directly input characters such as é and ä (such as by declaring \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}), how is a token defined? Specifically,
is it ...
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String parsing macro fails within a minipage environment? [closed]
I am trying to work with a string parsing macro, found in the answer of TeX capacity exceeded while parsing a date string - TeX - LaTeX.
Basically, I have strings num01, num02... num09 - from these, ...
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How to skip an `\item` entirely, with no side-effects?
In Ryan Reich's great answer to my question on onlyitems, he had LaTeX ignore an \item by setting it into a box and then not using the box, effectively discarding it:
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\def taking next word as argument?
This question is a variant of my previous question requesting a macro that takes the rest of the line as argument. I would like to write a macro that would take the next word as argument, where word ...
