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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How to generate summary table automatically?
I have to generate a summary of impacts and actions in many enviromental reports. Sometimes there are two or more impacts in the analyses, so I have to create the lines manually in the table. Is there ...
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etoolbox not breaking page when needed
I have the following piece of code in the preamble, that should prevent chapter from beginning on different pages, but, by the same time, when I get to chapter 3 it has enough text to break a page and ...
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tabularx too wide (after using etoolbox's appto?) [duplicate]
After using the solution of another problem (see here), my tabularx table is too wide now. Please see the MWE and its output below.
Adding \noindent before the first table doesn't help (as suggested ...
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Table of contents: section titles ragged right - 2
The problem of having ragged right toc is described in Table of contents: section titles ragged right for articles. The etoolbox-option seem not to work with the book class, and I am not too ...
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etoolbox and tabularx — problem with `appto`
I'm trying to print worksheets. I have already implemented an automatic numbering for subtasks. I use tabularx for my subtasks (see the MWE below).
Yesterday, I tried to define a new macro called \...
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etoolbox: ifdefvoid check for empty lines
I designed a system that reads a number of variables and, depending on the definition creates a text (either text "a" and the text contained in the variable (macro), or an alternate text "b" when the ...
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Run command before end of each frame [duplicate]
I've modified \item to insert a \vfill after each occurrence to space out bulleted lists on slides so they do not cluster in the center following this answer. However, to balance out my vertical ...
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etoolbox error in running template for ScienceAsia
Currently I am using pctexv6, and I tried to typeset this following simple template for a specific journal. However the output didn't come out and I got error message saying ! Package etoolbox Error: ...
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\raggedleft the content of all frames in Beamer
I want to \raggedleft only the content of each frame in Beamer. I tried this
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\AtBeginEnvironment{frame}{\raggedleft}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
...
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patching thenomenclature does not work
cant really understand why, but this code does not work
\immediate\write18{makeindex \jobname.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o \jobname.nls}
\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[...
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How to format text based on a logical statement that reads in a value from a csv?
Background
Hello, and thanks in advance for any insights you all can offer! Sorry for the very long post, but I noticed most new users are chastised for not sharing enough context. The TLDR version ...
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Labeled input parameters
I am creating a frontpage for various exams and I am looking to automate it a bit further. At the moment I write in (or rather copy paste), a ton of commands in the preabmle as follows:
\newcommand{\...
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Toggletrue with a command line
How to set the value of a toggle (from etoolbox package) with command line ?
I would like to create cmd file to compile latex file with different toggle value (i.e. one cmd fiel will compile wiht the ...
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Use \apptocmd to redefine \chapter
I am trying to write the style name into the marginal part, e.g., CN&CT to come at marginal note for \chapter tag, for this, I tried with the code, which are follows as:
\documentclass{book}
\...
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How to make chapter first page use mystyle?
It seems chapter first page use plain style. I created mystyle. How to make chapter first page to use mystyle?
\documentclass[twoside]{report}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{...
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How to set fancyhdr on chapter initial page of two side report?
\documentclass[twoside]{report}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\begin{document}
\chapter{First}
\lipsum[1-9]
\end{document}
Given the obove as a start. I see one ...
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Toggle row numbers & dotfills in table
I'm trying to add automatic row numbers and dotfills to a table, with a toggle that disables them for certain rows, however it doesn't work as expected. In the MWE below, the toggle is working for row ...
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etoolbox: AtBeginEnvironment is not At Begin Environment
I tried the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\AtBeginEnvironment{table}{AtBeginEnvironment\par}
\AtEndEnvironment{table}{AtEndEnvironment\par}
\BeforeBeginEnvironment{...
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Obeylines and \gappto from etoolbox
In order to simplify data entry with as little markup of the data as possible, I am attempting the following:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\begingroup
\obeylines
\gdef\ing#...
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“Patch failed” in EMNLP Style Template
I was trying to use the LaTeX files for the EMNLP 2019 conference (download link can be found here), but when I try to compile the provided example .tex file, it doesn't work and I get the following ...
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etoolbox + koma-script: Warning 'seems someone has broken package auxhook'
I use etoolbox's \AtEndPreamble to load the package hyperref at the end of the preamble. Doing so in a koma-script document results in the warning
Class scrartcl Warning: seems someone has broken ...
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End mark switching fails because \@ifnextchar's behavior in an environment hook is not as naively expected
For the purpose of readability, a proof can be segmented into claims. The proofs of claims (which I will call "reasonings" in the following) are usually "executed" immediately and within the outer ...
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Increase space between groups with package nomencl & etoolbox
I am writing a document and I need to have a table of notations. I wanted to reduce its size while keeping a good space between the different groups. I understood that:
I can use \setlength{\...
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How to compare a string to a cs from a read properly?
The scenario: reading a date in a yyyy-mm-dd form from a file to a cs. This cs later gets compared to a 'current date' macro to write a few args in a specific way to an external file. The current day ...
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Two column bibliography in 9pt with no Bibliography title, no article titles and use journal abbreviations
I'm trying to squeeze a two column bibliography into a one column article document using this in the preamble. So far so good:
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd{\thebibliography}{\...
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Problem patching by appending to \footnote command. “Missing \endcsname inserted”
I want to test whether a macro is (a) outside or (b) inside a \footnote command, similar to what's asked in (i) How to test if I'm currently in a footnote or not, (ii) Detect whether I'm in a \...
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Problem solutions at end of chapter
I'm writing a document with multiple chapters. Each chapter has problems and each problem has a solution. I want some of the solutions to be right after the problem and the others to appear at the end ...
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header/footer only on the current page, or also its following pages
I define a macro named \pagecurrent which will be used in other macros related to header and footer, e.g. \cfoot, \chead, \renewcommand{\headrule}....
It's function is to determine whether the action ...
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Code seems to have no effect when inside `iftoggle`
In this answer I have been suggested to patch hyperref’s automatic pdfauthor metadata handling mechanism as follows. The goal is to have PDF metadata work with authblk and multiple authors.
\...
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How to save boolean values into the aux file? (using e.g. etoolbox's toogles)
I want to use etoolbox's toggles to achieve the following: In the preamble a toggle is created, during typesetting the document its value might change and at the end I want to write the value to the ...
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Workaround for tabularx inside environment when using csquotes
I need an environment that presents data in a table. The number of right-most columns shall be adjusted at compile-time, and the first column is dynamic width. For this reason I am using \usepackage{...
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forcsvlist to use the expanded result of another forcsvlist
My problem is, that I have a list of authors, that I use at several places for several things. For example I would like to generate an Author's index. In the code below I would like to "rework" the ...
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Collision of etoolbox and LuaLatex
I use a macro \mychoice{item a, item b, items c,…} that returns one of the items of the comma-separated-list determined by an external counter based on the \docsvlist macro from etoolbox. In simple ...
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How to test if a macro's value (set via kvoptions in a package) is empty or blank (e.g. using etoolbox)?
I have no idea, why this test fails and how to get it to work:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{myTestSty.sty}
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1994/06/01]
\...
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An extra row in the table generated by \whileboolexpr command
I used \whileboolexpr command from etoolbox package to generate a table. But there was an extra unwanted row. What is the problem with the following code?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{...
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Redefine \chapter to add \printMiniToc
I want every chapter to have \printMiniToc after it. However I don't want to have to add \printMiniToc after every \chapter.
So I tried using etoolbox and tried this:
xapptocmd{\chapter}{\...
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iftoggle with minted
I have a problem with the minted package in combination with etoolbox's iftoggle. It should be related (or basically be the same error) to this beamer question: minted environment in frame causes ...
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Different titleformat style for different numberless chapters (2nd part)
Referring to this thread: Different titleformat style for different numberless chapters, I've the following code:
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{ bottero:1992,
author = "Bottero, ...
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Expanding macro defined by \csdef to define a style via \tikzset
I need to store tikz option in a \csdef{}:
\csdef{My Node Option}{draw=red, thick, fill=yellow}
How do I use this definition to define a style via \tikzset?
I attempted to use .expand once as per ...
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exam: Conditionally printing singular/plural form of marks/questions/pages
Following-up this answer, I would like to know to make \NAMEquestions print the word "questions" in case of multiple questions exam and "question" in case of a single question exam?
For example, in a ...
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Fixing part layout using \patchcmd
I want to remove the linebreak between part numeration and part name as found here. However the solution doesn't work for me.
MWE:
\documentclass[draft, onecolumn, oneside, paper=a4, 12pt]{scrartcl}...
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Unexpected Results from \dolistloop
Given \def\CSVList{a,b,c}, using \dolistloop{\CSVList} does not seem to process the \CSVList as expected:
Perhaps I am not understanding how \dolistloop is supposed to work, but this example is ...
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Show title in margin first time a work is cited
The core of my question is how to define a macro that does something different the first time it is called with a given argument.
And further, have the ability to reset that so that that first time ...
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How to suppress setting page headers by \thebibliography?
I'm modifying an existing template so I'm stuck to certain conditions.
\documentclass is book.
Bibliographies are managed by cite package and I cannot use bibtex nor biblatex. There are several ...
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How can I patch the abstract, list of figures, and list of tables macros to be included in the ToC automatically?
We can definitely use \phantomsection \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{<name>} right after we begin the environments or type the relevant macro, which would include abstract, list of figures and ...
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Automatically insert bibliography before appendix
I came up with a new problem by automate my document. The requirement is to insert a bibliography at the end of a document. Therefore I use \AtEndDocument from etoolbox. This is working perfectly fine ...
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Calling author, title, etc without format
I am working on a document in which I use the environment titlepage for the cover. My problem is that I use later \@autor, \@title, etc, and since they are formatted on the cover; when I use these ...
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How to access etoolbox toggle inside Lua
I'm creating a package that uses etoolbox toggles but a good amount of the package is written in Lua. Is there a way to access the etoolbox toggles direct in Lua?
I know that etoolbox uses a ...
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Add command at the beginning of all frames
I need to add a command \setRTL from the bidi package to write right-to-left text, at the beginning of every frame.
Another answer does not solve the issue; any suggestions?
\documentclass{beamer}
...
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Can't Get \xappto Working
I'm trying to learn how to use \xappto, and I've been working with this example. Why isn't this working? When I pass after row=\noexpand\midrule directly into \codeforpgf{} it works fine, but ...
