Questions tagged [comma-separated-list]
{comma-separated-list} is a data format consisting of fields, most commonly separated by commas
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When a Statement has Two Footnotes---How to Add a Comma? [duplicate]
Consider the code:
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
This is a sentence.\footnote{\lipsum[31]}
This is a sentence.\footnote{\lipsum[31]}\footnote{\...
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How to return an iterable list from a newcommand for further processing
I have a list defined as, for example:
\def\mylist{1,2,3}
I need to perform some mathematical operation on every element of the list, and then pass the output to another function that iterates over ...
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How to manipulate lists in LaTeX? I want to get a value from a list based on its numerical index
I want to use the expl3 package to manipulate lists in LaTeX. My goal is to create an empty list called \mylist, fill it with values, and then retrieve a specific value based on a given numerical ...
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Error building a table row from comma separated list when using listofitems package
I am trying to build a table in which a row is built by a function/command call. I can get everything to work if I pass each cell as a separate argument to the command, but that is going to be tedious ...
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Getting the Maximum Width of a List of Items
I'm trying to write a command to get the maximum width of a (comma separated) list of items, for example \myLengthCommand{lorem,ipsum,lorem ipsum} should return the width of the text "lorem ipsum&...
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hyperref warning: Token not allowed in a PDF string - macro Refactoring as a fix
I have a macro that takes a comma-separated list of lists and applies some formatting to it. The list consists of the first and last names of the document's authors. I managed to create a macro - \...
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Issues with Misplaced Alignment Tab Character and Table Width in tabularray Environment [duplicate]
I've adapted the code below from this answer to switch from the tabular environment to the tblr environment from the tabularray package. While the original code works perfectly with tabular, I'm ...
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Can't compare clist item with string
I can't compare comma list item with string. \clist_a is a temp var.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{expl3}
\begin{document}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\clist_new:N \clist_a
\keys_define:nn { mymodule }
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How to create an environment that allows you to bold words before a " : "
(This is my first question, I hope I'm not breaking any rules in how I'm asking it)
I would need an environment that basically takes as input a list of words separated by the ":" symbol and ...
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Iterate comma separated argument for \author
How to define a macro that accepts comma separated arguments, iterates over the arguments and inserts some command or text between the arguments?
E.g. by checking if the current argument is not the ...
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Expand a clist from l3prop keys
I have a key that takes a comma-separated list as its value, with entries coming from the keys of a property list. I would like the "default" (no-value-given) to apply the key to every key ...
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Is it possible to define commands that accept different argument types?
This is actually a more general question, but since a MWE is almost universally called for, consider David Carlisle's code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{nopageno}
\...
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Execute list of commands generated by pairing elements from two \clist s or \seq s
I have hundreds of lines of code of the form
\Umathcode`a = 0 \symwmb "1D4B6
and
\Umathcode"03B1 = 0 \symrmtl "0000B
where, in the latter case, there is a counterpart \def\...
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handling a variable number of pagerefs
I'm writing a discussion document where contributors get their own pages and I want to mention these pages in the general text
So I have this which seems to do the trick
% usage: create printed page ...
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Comma separated list replacement
I have a comma-separated list of information provided by the author as a preamble to my document.
I then want to use this list and I'd like to put one item from my list per line. My idea was simply to ...
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Error combining separators using || in listofitems
I have noticed that .- may cause trouble if chosen as a separator with two or more other separators. Below minimal example compiles, but the line \bar{(w1) .- (w2)} that is commented out will throw ...
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Automatic listing of authors in a document
I have a command \by{ } that lets me list authors of an article like this:
\by{
{author 1}{tagline} \\
{author 2}{tagline} \\
{author 3}{tagline} \\
<etc.>
}
I would like to store author 1, ...
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How to append the graphics path in a for-loop?
Objective
I wanted to create a command that enables me to add a collection of paths in a comma-separated list to my graphics path, next to a bunch of other instructions for each path that I will not ...
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Parsing of comma-separated list for \foreach
I am using PGF's \foreach on comma-separated list where the items may contain spaces; each item can be enclosed in {...} if it contains space, that works fine. Now, what happens when there is only a ...
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How do I check if a list item is blank when it is passed as a parameter in LaTex?
I'm trying to create a command that accepts two lists using the \listofitems package where the first list is optional.
In the command I want to check if the first entry in the optional list is "...
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Command for comma in math or text mode
I have the following csv file (myCSVfile.csv) which contains header with LaTeX code:
$T_{1,2}$,
$T_{3}$
100,
300
200,
500
In my LaTeX document, I import this table with \pgfplotstabletypeset[col ...
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How to choose separating symbol in citations?
Currently my citations are like:
"blah blah (1) blah blah blah (2-6) blah blah blah blah (7,8)"
But I need that "(7,8)" to be "(7-8)". I'm using abntex2cite package, ...
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Comma separated values list in pgfkey is not a list
The question might be dumb but I can't find an adequate solution.
If I put a comma separated value list as parameter using pgfkeys, then the result of pgfkeysvalueof is an atomic value and not a list.
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Grab variable number of tokens – xparse macro
I'm trying to create the following macro:
\adddescr{<comma separated list>}{<description 1>}...{<description n>}
this macro should print element -- description \par accordingly, so ...
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Create macro with variable number of comma separated arguments in plain TeX?
I wish to create two macros: one that takes a known number, and another that takes an unknown number of arguments that are comma-separated and does something with them. There have been a few answers ...
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How can I parse a clist into a keyval prop?
I'm trying to store a comma-separated list into a key-value property to use it later, but I can't get it to work properly.
I don't really understand how latex parses a keyval parameter but my guess is ...
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How can I create a comma-separated list of characters from a text string?
How can I split the string Hello World! - stored into a macro \def\mystring{Hello Word!} - into a comma-separated list of characters (including spaces) which can be used as argument of a \foreach loop ...
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expl3: Print a polynomial out of coefficients stored in a row of CSV file
Following up this answer, how to robustly use the values stored in \getRow as coefficients of a polynomial to be printed?
Also, I need to have an argument of the symbol to be used in the polynomial. (...
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Creating a table from a comma separated list in LaTeX3
I have a comma separated list and want to create a table from it, like so:
\documentclass[margin=0.1cm]{standalone}
\usepackage{expl3}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{c | c}
\...
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How to use \clist_map_tokens:Nn?
p. 175: \clist_map_tokens:Nn⟨clist var⟩{⟨code⟩} calls ⟨code⟩{⟨item⟩} for every ⟨item⟩stored in the ⟨comma list⟩. If the ⟨code⟩consists of a single function this is equivalent to \clist_map_function:nN....
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Expansion while processing math in lists with xparse
I'm trying to "print" a comma-separated list of strings. The actual use case is more complex, the list being stored as a key-value, but the MWE below shows the problem: when I add math to ...
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Latex3 and \foreach: Do common operation over list of clist variables
I am trying to learn LaTeX3. In writing one of my projects I faced a situation in which is usefull working with short comma-separated lists, testing whether they are empty, have only one item, etc ...
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How to Shift Comma Inside Closing Quotes in Index
Consider the MWE
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\makeindex
\usepackage{idxlayout}
\usepackage{xcolor}
% Make all page numbers in index bold
\let\oldindex\index
\renewcommand{\index}[1]{%
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Adding comma if exactly two authors from *.bst file (bibtex)
I'm using bibtex with a custom .bst file for the thesis. Unfortunately, the .bst file doesn’t produce a comma separating the author names when there are only two authors, and I need to add this comma.
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LaTeX3: Parse CSV list stored in macro
This question is kind-of follow-up to answer given to this question: How to iterate over a comma separated list?
The difference is, that I want to iterate over a csv list stored in a macro \myTerms. ...
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Mapping a expl3 clist to a list of command sequences
I am trying to map a clist to a clist of command sequences using \csname \endcsname and then using clist_use to print the list:
Here is the MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xparse}
\...
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How to get the first length in a list
I need to get the first length in a list of lengths and store it in a variable.
This is what I got so far:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\newlength{\mylength}
%% does not work at all
%\...
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Modifying a list and passing it to another command
I am trying to write some macros to easy my life while writing mathematics in LaTeX. For this, I would like to have some macros to write wedge products in a more concise manner.
I have a command which ...
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Define macros from a list processed by the listofitems package
I wanted to distinguish the control variables of different agents in a separate color so that my students can read examples more easily. To do so, I wanted to write a macro \definevar{x,y;z} that I ...
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A problem with the listofitems package
Using MiKTeX 2.9 on Windows 10 I've run into a problem with listofitmes. In the code shown:
% arara: xelatex: { shell: true }
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{...
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User friendly array definition macro
I am working on a custom documentclass where there may be one or multiple authors in a document. Normally, one would simply specify \author{} and call some additional macros to set some special values,...
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Feeding a list into a tabular with listofitems
I am using listofitems package to parse a list. Then I want to feed the result into a table (with particular details depending on the items indices). As the first step, I tried to just iterate over ...
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Process Comma Separated List from Key Value (expl3)
I'm trying to \SplitList / \ProcessList a clist set in a wrapper command's argument as the value of a key.
Unfortunately, it seems that the original command (\mycmd below) doesn't recognize the input ...
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Parsing non-comma-separated lists in TikZ environment
In this answer I saw that we can use [<new pgf key>/.code={...}, <new pgf key>] to smuggle in some code into the construction of a TikZ path. This approach works if all coordinates have a ...
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Command with arguments separated by comma II (typically an easy way to write matrices)
Since I am using 2 x 2 matrices very frequently, I would like to define a command which would work like this: \matr{a, b, c, d} would produce
$\begin{pmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix}$.
Of ...
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Evaluate each element in a computed comma separated list
I have a permutated list which I sort, which I then use as shades for some TikZ figures.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{expl3, tikz}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\clist_new:N \l_my_clist
\NewDocumentCommand{\...
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Iterating over two lists of text elements (or a list of pairs)
Let's assume I have two lists of text elements - L1,L2,L3,...,Ln and R1,R2,R3,...Rn - or a list of pairs - (L1,R1),(L2,R2),(L3,R3),...,(Ln,Rn). I want to iterate over them in order to produce an ...
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Create a nested comma-separated-list from a CSV file
In my Latex document I define a nested list that looks like this:
\def\recipes{
{
test1@
test2@
test3@
test4@
test5a*test5b@
test6a*test6b
},
{
test1@
test2@
test3@
test4@
test5a*test5b@
test6a*test6b
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Manually add an entry to the list of tracked entries
I feel like I'm missing something simple, but I can't manage to write a macro to manually add an entrykey to the list of tracked entries in biblatex such that \ifciteseen will be true.
What am I doing ...
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How to auto-complete with comma-separated citations?
I am using TexMaker and I want my editor to auto-complete the \parencite{} command for biblatex for any number of arguments.
I already added \parencite{#bib#} in User > customize Completion, but I ...
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