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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9h	comment	Checking if a string contains # with its original catcode @BrunoLeFloch: Please what is `\bcheckhash` doing in the token list to be tested?
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2d	comment	Checking if a string contains # with its original catcode App. D of the TeXBook or TeX by Topic? Which page?
2d	comment	Checking if a string contains # with its original catcode OK, thanks. That is an assignment.
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2d	comment	Checking if a string contains # with its original catcode Thanks for the solution and explanation.
2d	comment	Checking if a string contains # with its original catcode Yes, an eTeX solution is welcome.
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May 14	accepted	PGF's \foreach when list requires completion
May 14	asked	PGF's \foreach when list requires completion
Apr 29	comment	\pdfstrcmp or \strcmp in pure TeX @FrankMittelbach: How then was the primitive built?
Apr 15	answered	Negating \ifeof
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