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Expl variable assignments not behaving as I expect

I don't get what I'm doing wrong here. Neither of the commented lines work as the uncommented version does. \begin{filecontents}{silly.tex} This is just a test. \end{filecontents} ...
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Automating table creation

I have the following table that I need to recreate quite a few times Due to its size and complexity (yes, I am a tex novice) I am looking into ways of automating the creation of said table. I try ...
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Conflict between xparse and pstricks: pstricks doesn't believe xparse function is defined

I want to create a pspicture with a variety of parameters which are interdependent. I'm using expl3 for the interface. But I get an error when I try to use \getr Error: /undefined in \getr Operand ...
3
votes
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Commands from xparse inside functions created by \cs_new:Npn?

Is it okay to put commands from xparse inside functions created by \cs_new:Npn instead of \NewDocumentCommand? Would that be a confusion of programming levels? The example below works but I was ...
3
votes
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How to map optional arguments to functions?

What is the right way to map each optional argument to a function that applies a specific style to it? In the example below, optional arguments are typeset in bold face preceded by a colon. But I ...
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xparse verbatim with newline

I'm trying to define a simple command using xparse and it's verbatim argument: \DeclareDocumentCommand\macro{v}{#1} but see ! LaTeX error: "xparse/verbatim-newline" ! ! Verbatim argument of ...
4
votes
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Change \baselinestretch using xparse in TeX Live 2012

Is there a preferred way to change \baselinestretch using the xparse package included in TeX Live 2012? (I believe this is xparse version 3570, dated 2012/04/23.) If I run latex -output-format pdf ...
4
votes
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Equivalent of \@afterheading for LaTeX3

I want to define an environment with LaTeX3 where I can supress the indention in the first line. For LaTeX2e you can use \@afterindentfalse\@afterheading. The example use this combination. But I want ...
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Splitting on new lines using \SplitList

What do I pass to \SplitList to get it to split the string on a new line? I've tried \n and \r, but neither of those work. The code I used was \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xparse} ...
2
votes
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Undefined control sequence with xparse

I just installed the texlive-latex3 package and tried running pdflatex on the following (copied directly from another question posted here): \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xparse} \ExplSyntaxOn ...
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xparse: Define new command with multiple optional parameters

I'd like to define a new command with optional parameters using the xparse package. Please consider the following example: \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{xparse} ...