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How to define a command that takes more than 18 arguments [duplicate]
This question is based on this answer.
It is a continuation of my previous qestion regarding list of values in latex.
According to first link there is a limitation on the number of arguments I have ...
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10 parameters separated by comma. How can I do it? [duplicate]
\def\g(#1,#2,#3,#4,#5,#6,#7,#8,#9,#10){(#6)*exp(-(#2)/(#7))+((#6)**2)*exp(2*(-(#2))/(#7))*(#9)*exp((#4)/(#7)}%
\def\f(#1,#2,#3,#4,#5,#6,#7,#8,#9,#10){1+2*(#6)*exp(-(#2)/(#7))+((#6)**2)*exp(2*(-(#2))/(...
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How to handle more than 9 parameters in Kiviat Diagrams? [duplicate]
This email is regarding Solution 2 mentioned in this post to draw Kiviat Diagrams.
This Solution is working perfectly upto 9 axis. But when we make number of axis as 10, it's giving error as : "You ...
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Writing macros with a large number of arguments [duplicate]
How can I write a macro with more than 10 arguments?
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Is it possible to connect a database to LaTeX to produce data-driven documents?
I'm starting to write a LaTeX-based reference manual, and have realised that a lot of my needs could be solved by writing a database and then producing the reference manual from that. Lots of my pages ...
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newcommand with comma separated argument, and optional arguments
I want to define a command (not with \def) the simplest possible way that it
takes arguments separated by a comma,
supports an optional argument (the first one).
maybe another solution with extra ...
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A macro that conditionally disregards the need for one of its arguments
Let's suppose I want to write nested equations that contain a fair few nested parenthetical/delimiter characters, like (), [], {}, ||, and perhaps others. Suppose too that I think these things look ...
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How to access i'th argument of a macro?
How can I access the i'th argument of a \newcommand declaration via an iteration variable?
Assume I want a command \foo like:
\newcommand{\barr}[1]{argument 1 is: #1}
\newcommand{\foo}[6]{
\...
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How to define _or_ redefine a command (mixing \providecommand + \renewcommand)?
In some situations I wish there was a way to define a command \tmp so that
if \tmp does not exist: Defined \tmp
if \tmp does exits: Redefine \tmp
My current approach is simply to use either \...
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Macro with more than 9 arguments
Consider the following example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[
a4paper,
hmargin = 2.4cm,
vmargin = 3cm
]{geometry} % https://ctan.org/pkg/geometry
\usepackage{xskak} % https://...
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Generate a table with 19 arguments using key-value interface
I'm doing my bachelor thesis, and need to make a table with lots of data.
I want to make a macro for that table, since I'm going to use it a few times.
Considering egreg's answer in this question, ...
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Why do I get "! You can't use a prefix with `the character 0'." when using \ifnum?
Using a pgffor loop, I run through a comma-delimited list to separate the CMYK values. I think the problem is in my \ifnum comparison. I am getting an error. Obviously I simplified the code to keep ...
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How to generate a matrix from an arbitrary sequence of arguments?
This answer shows me how I can handle an arbitrary number of arguments. I have adapted it a bit to my purpose:
\usepackage{pgffor}
\newcommand*{\twolinematrix}[1]{%
\foreach \firstrowelement/\...
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How to use variables inside a command when generating a table?
I'm not sure about the question, since I do not really understand why it fails.
I tend to use commands to generate my tables, and when I use the #1 style of accessing the arguments it works. But now ...
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Error when using defs inside a macro to write a row in a table
For the following MWE
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\cmd}[5]{%
\def\tA{#1}%
\def\tB{#2}%
\def\tC{#3}%
\def\tD{#4}%
\def\tE{#5}%
\tA & \tB & \tC & \tD & \tE \\
}
\...
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