Ahmed Musa

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After earning a PhD in theoretical physics, I became a faculty researcher in operations/production management and logistics. How did I come into TeX? I used it to typeset my PhD thesis and since I like programming, I invested time to learn TeX programming.

It was the strangeness of TeX that I found challenging and interesting. I hate \def and \let because they can cause havoc. Unfortunately, \newcommand offers no means to protect and privatize commands. It’s a miracle that TeX has survived despite \def and \let. TeX doesn’t impose a programming style; it is regrettable that LuaTeX hasn’t corrected this situation.

My packages on CTAN include catoptions, keyreader, keyval2e, ltxkeys, pgfkeyx, skeyval, loops, xwatermark, storecmd, ltxtools, and newenviron.

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1d	revised	Get the head, the tail, and the last element of a comma-separated list added 278 characters in body
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1d	answered	Get the head, the tail, and the last element of a comma-separated list
2d	answered	Append two lists for TikZ foreach loop
2d	revised	Checking if a string contains # with its original catcode added 323 characters in body
2d	comment	Checking if a string contains # with its original catcode @BrunoLeFloch: Thanks. Corrected.
2d	comment	Checking if a string contains # with its original catcode @BrunoLeFloch: Please what is `\bcheckhash` doing in the token list to be tested?
May 21	revised	Access loop variable outside loop added 8 characters in body
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May 21	answered	Checking if a string contains # with its original catcode
May 20	comment	Checking if a string contains # with its original catcode App. D of the TeXBook or TeX by Topic? Which page?
May 20	comment	Checking if a string contains # with its original catcode OK, thanks. That is an assignment.
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May 20	answered	Checking if a string contains # with its original catcode
May 20	comment	Checking if a string contains # with its original catcode Thanks for the solution and explanation.