Questions tagged [etoolbox]
{etoolbox} is a package which provides several macros which take advantage of the {e-tex} extension of (La)TeX.
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Comparing node coordinates in Tikz
I am trying to generate drawings automatically based on node coordinates. The construction process itself is very easy: draw an arrow from node i to node i+1 (i and i+1 being node names, fixed ...
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Table Spacing with “setspace” and “etoolbox”
I use the set spacing package, to avoid that tables are condensed I also use the etoolbox package to define the tabular environment. However, in one specific table the 1.5 spacing is too much and I ...
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Using \noindent in \AfterEndEnvironment from etoolbox creates bigger gaps between two environments
Using \noindent in \AfterEndEnvironment from etoolbox creates bigger gaps between two environments than it should. Here is code, that fully describes the problem.
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{...
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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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Using csdef in table
I am trying to automatically add a decision summary when writing meeting minutes. For each paragraph of the meeting I use a table to organize the paragraph number, name and content, and I use etoolbox ...
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How to remove the “Bibliography” title in book class
Here:
How to remove the "References" title
Gonzalo Medina suggests to use:
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd{\thebibliography}{\section*{\refname}}{}{}{}
to remove the word "References&...
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Comma-separated list environment and etoolbox
I want to combine the automatic punctuation in comma separated list from this answer with the list processing from etoolbox.
However, I do not get any output.
What is going wrong here?
\documentclass{...
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Access argument passed to environment with etoolbox \AtBeginEnvironment
I would like to use etoolbox to run some code at the beginning of the tabular environment. I would like to use the column specification in this code. Can this be done easily?
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Reference an element of an array created by listadd
Given the mwe:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\begin{document}
\listadd\terms{First item of the list}
\listadd\terms{Second item which has punctuation such as, commas, potentially a ...
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Single Line Checker
I'm using caption and subcaption Packages to make more beautiful captions to my figures used in the document. So i use the following style,
\DeclareCaptionStyle{MarinoCaptionStyle}{
format=...
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How to use conditionals with arithmetic expressions and boolean operators (etoolbox)?
How would I do something like this pseudo-code:
\if{#1==5 or \x>7}{Command 1}
\else{Command 2}
where #1 is some argument in a \newcommand and \x could come from a \foreach \x in {0,1,2}, for ...
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How to detect if a certain patch has been made?
This answer offers a nice patch to allow lineno works fine with amsmath environments, and I would like to use this in some of my classes and styles that use lineno. However, this may cause the patch ...
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etoolbox do with macro as parameter
I'm trying to make an automatized meeting log generator using pdflatex. I want to create a table with the n rows, and fill them up with comma separated typein inputs. I've got the myTable macro from ...
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Footnote overwriting bottom centered page number
I am using the etoolbox package to set the footnote spacing to single spaced inside my double spaced document. However, if I have a lot of footnotes on a page, they overwrite the page number. How ...
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Toggle between dotted lines/solution/blank space
I want to learn how to create a command such that I can easily toggle between having dotted lines or solution or even blank space (no space) under my questions.
I know exam class has the answer ...
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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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Problem with etoolbox and csundef
With the code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\newenvironment{Toto}{%
}{%
}
\AfterEndEnvironment{Toto}{I forgot\dots}
\begin{document}
\begin{Toto}
\end{Toto}
\csundef{@afterend@...
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How to combined numbered and symbol footnotes?
I want to combine both regular and numbered footnotes. Currently I have the following:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{footnote}
\usepackage[symbol,perpage]{footmisc}
\...
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etoolbox : hook before code
Is there a way to make hook work before code?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\begin{document}
\hhh % this does not work
foo
\appto\hhh{test1}
bar
\hhh % this work
\end{...
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Redefine any environment and command to an empty output
I have defined a few complicated environments and commands. Sometimes I need to to only see the superstructure of my output PDF. For this I need a way to do dry-run. I use a \toggletrue{dryrun} which ...
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How do I separate chapters and insert a few empty lines between two chapters?
I know it has been asked before but I just can't seem to make it work not matter what I try.
I am using the report class. Now I want only my chapters to start below the end of the preceeding chapter. ...
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exam/geometry: First footer is shifted below when setting geometry using \AtBeginDocument
This answer does the job for placing the header right. However, the first footer is unknowingly shifted way much down.
So, why does \AtBeginDocument{\settototalheight\headerTotalHeight{\headerContents}...
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How to pass several comma separated lists of arguments to \docsvlist?
I have a macro test which takes two arguments and translate a word if:
this word is "minus" (first argument)
the second argument is "translate"
I need to pass comma separated ...
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Problem with etoolbox
I just installed TeXLive2020 and I cannot make it work with etoolbox.
It was the first time I installed a TL version not from the (Ubuntu, in my case) official repository, and, I have to admit, I ...
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\docsvlist and nested functions: unwanted large spaces [duplicate]
I would like to iterate through a comma separated list to translate some words. I already found how to do so using \docsvlist from the etoolbox package. However, there is a large space printed before ...
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How to generate a list containing the values of a table
I have a table containing two columns with x and y values respectively and I want to generate a list \coordinates containing (x,y) for each row of the column.
I tried defining a command that creates a ...
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Convert roman from \thepage into arabic
I am having trouble getting the value from \thepage (which is in roman style) and converting it to arabic to set some counter.
A very simple example of what I want to do is:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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etoolbox error when using uni-wtal-ger style
I get an error when I try to use the uni-wtal-ger citation style and since I am fairly new to Latex I am unable to make sense of it (at all).
My usepackage declaration for biblatex looks like this:
\...
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patching \setcounter and \addotocounter not working well with calc
for some very specific needs of reledac, I need to get the value of the page counter each time it is changed, either via settocounter, either with addotcounter.
So I did something like this (it is a ...
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Recompiling on another newer iMac I obtain error: “./LibroOrange.tex:187: Package etoolbox Error: Toggle 'blx@lang@captions@latin' undefined.”
Recompiling on another newer iMac my big book, I obtain error:
./LibroOrange.tex:187: Package etoolbox Error: Toggle 'blx@lang@captions@latin' undefined.
But pressing RETURN seems to solve: the ...
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Store previous element of loop in intermediate variable for dynamic command creation
I am dynamically creating commands and would like to define them based on the current value in an iteration list. The problem is that the current value appears as the last value of the iterated ...
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Conditional add to Counter based on conditional ifboolexpr
I want to add to a counter based on an ifboolexpr using etoolbox but cant get it to work as I had hoped.
I want to put various conditions throughout my document and then at the end have a count of how ...
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Am I using etoolbox correctly for string comparison?
I have a little environment to enumerate question statements. Sometimes, I want the label to not be a number but some string instead. In that case, I do not want the counter to be incremented.
% ...
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Etoolbox's \patchcmd can't find search pattern due to hyperref package
I use the report class and I have learned from other questions on this site (like Remove spacing between per-chapter figures in LoF) how I can adjust the spacing between per-chapter figures in the LoF....
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Block additional document contents after appendices
I'm using the appendix package's appendices environment, and due to style changes for the appendices, placing anything after the appendices doesn't make sense. I'd like to raise an error if anything ...
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Why is code appended to \endabstract still indented?
I'm trying to automatically append "keywords" (defined in the preamble) to the end of the abstract environment. The keywords should not be flush with the abstract, but flush with the body ...
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\edef not working with \@author [closed]
I am writing a custom documentclass and I would like to split \@author on \and (which I redefine to \unskip,) to use with etoolbox \docsvlist:
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesClass{myarticle}
\...
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using iftoggle to set newtheorem depth
I am using the same macro file for multiple documents, and I would like their theorems to be numbered differently -- one by section and another by subsection. I'm trying to do this by using iftoggle ...
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ttfamily in the chapter title of Korean language document
When having a Korean document and we have \ttfamily in a \chapter (or other section command) we get an error in respect to etoolbox, and a crash on the line after the \tableofcontents (independent of ...
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tufte-book: Make all \align environments full width
I'm working with tufte-book, and I want all my align environments to be full-width by default.
Minimum working example;
\documentclass[
a4paper,
nofonts,
justified
]{tufte-book}
\...
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How can I rewrite these conditionals effectively?
I'm working on modernizing and adapting an old LuaLaTeX template made for exams and other university documents. The thing is, the document is full of conditionals like these:
\newcommand{\showMarks}{...
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Understanding empty \newcommand's in etoolbox.sty
In etoolbox.sty, three commands \ifdefmacro, \ifdefparam and \ifdefprotected are firstly defined by \newcommand\cmd{}, then by \long\edef\cmd{...}. I don't understand why the empty \newcommands are ...
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\csdef{} that reports error if command is already defined
Is there a version of \csdef{}{} that reports an error if the value is already defined? The MWE below compiles fine since no checking for the macro already being defined is done and yields:
I want to ...
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Chemical packages bug fontspec mhchem siunits
Example:
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usetheme{Singapore}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{helvet}
\usepackage{natbib}
\...
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Patch `pmatrix` with optional arguments
I need to patch the math command pmatrix with optional arguments. For example, I'd like to patch the following code, while treating it as immutable.
\[
\begin{pmatrix}
& a & b\\
c &...
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Hyperlink to homepage after author in amsart
The amsart class provides the command \urladdr which is intended to place a hyperlink to the homepage of each author at the end of the document. I wonder whether the amsart setauthors command can be ...
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Conflict between french option, babel package, babel tikzlibrary and etoolbox package
I'm sorry for the pretty vague title. I've tried to make it as clear as I could.
In my documents, I'm setting up the language option with babel package and to avoid some troubles I had to load babel ...
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Cleveref's namecref usage in etoolbox' tests
I am currently trying to create new commands to add the correct French article in front of the cross-references when required (for example "la figure XX" or "le chapitre XX").
My initial idea was to ...
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How to fix etoolboox error? BibLaTex using bibstyle=uni-wtal-ger
I'm trying to use BibLaTeX with citestyle=authoryear-ibid and bibstyle=uni-wtal-ger
My main.tex looks like this:
\documentclass[paper=a4,pagesize=auto,oneside,fontsize=12pt,toc=bib]{scrreprt}
\...
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Hook for outer par mode
Is it possible to execute macros after the correct mode is 'reached?'
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{marginfix}
\newcommand{\mymarginpar}[1]{\AfterEndEnvironment{figure}{\...
