Questions tagged [ifthenelse]
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Error by using changes (\listofchanges) with documentclass amsart
I want to use the package changes with the document class amsart, however, I get the following error message:
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \equal
{\Changes@loc@...
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Lost global definition after \ifthenelse using package xifthen
I created my MWE with the help of this Q&A.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xifthen}% provides \isempty test
\newcommand{\GlobalDef}[1][]{ %
\ifthenelse{\isempty{#1}} %
{} %
...
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Seven segment display with TikZ
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass[border=5pt,tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\newcommand{\binary}[3]{
\pgfmathsetmacro\number{int(#1*2^0+#2*2^1+#3*2^2)}
}
\newcommand{\sieben}[1]{
...
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advancing dates in a 3-day syllabus
I am trying to adapt this advance date method for a 3-day syllabus without success.
The goal is to create a M-W-F class schedule. The method in the link above is for a two-day schedule. It takes the ...
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Conflict with \fi in figure captions
I have the following preamble:
\documentclass[11pt]{book}
% PACKAGES
% graphics packages
\usepackage{graphics}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
% negative phantoms (\nphantom, \nhphantom, \...
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if statement to remove spacing between lines
i am working on a resume using a latex template. in the template, there is spacing in case you wish to add an additional bullet point. however, if you don't add that bullet point, the spacing stays ...
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Conditionals used in a new environment of detection of how many lines of quotation and with the selection of a language in XeLaTeX
I would like that a new environment of quotation/quote detect how many lines a text has, then will increase or decrease the quotation length/margin.
For example:
\newenvironment{citacao}[1]%
{\...
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Indentation of footnotes depending on number of digits in footnote marks on the same page
I wanted to adjust the left indentation of footnotes depending on the number of digits of the footnote mark. Thus, footnotes with one digit are aligned a the length of single \parindent (which is set ...
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How do I get permission for exam materials?
MWE
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{ulem}
book = 1
phone = 0
photocopy = 1
internet = 0
tablet = 1
\begin{document}
Book, \xout{phone}, photocopy, \xout{internet}, tablet, \ldots\ free or open.
...
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How to use boolean to toggle display of environment that may contain verbatim?
I'd like to create an environment solution that either displays its contents or nothing depending on whether the boolean solutions is set. Currently I'm trying:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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Protect fragile variable in file path. Case of \ifthenelse in \includegraphics{}
In this script:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\newcommand{\myfigure}[1]{% ...
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\ifthenelse as an argument to \equal
In this example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\newcommand{\objtitle}[1]{% ...
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Add tocline depending on string compare
!! Attention !!
Because this topic developed some amount of complexity, I tried to restructure the topic considering the newly gathered information.
Please see this post to find the latest detail: ...
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Problem with nested if statements
I'm trying to use some nested if statements to decide if a file exists and what kind of loadings are possible:
\IfFileExists{./emoji.sty}{
\ifxetex
\usepackage[bw,font=seguiemj.ttf]{emoji}
\...
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My if condition does not work. Any idea why?
I have just one question. My if condition does not work. I dont know why. Here is the if condition:
\ifthenelse{\boolean{somevariable}}{split dir tree auto,}{} %IF ABFRAGE FUNKTIONIERT NICHT
I set \...
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Error with ifthenelse
The code
\newcommand{\variableBackgroundColor}{%
\ifthenelse{1=1}%\(\boolean{Colle} \OR \boolean{DM}\)}
%then
{black!10!white}
%else
{white}
}
\tcolorboxenvironment{private_exo}{boxrule=...
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Nested if-then-else statements
I try to use nested if-then-else conditions:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\newcommand{\printTrueOrFalseA}[1]{%
\ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{true}}{true}{false}%
}
\newcommand{\...
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votes
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How test value of a command with `\ifthenelse` and `\equal`?
Revised question
(Trying to follow suggestion in comment by David Carlisle.)
I want to assign a string as the value of a command and then take alternative actions (by means of ifthenelse) according ...
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Macro that calls ifthen's \equal doesn't work in section heading. Why?
In the following MWE, I have a macro \mytest that tests whether its argument is a or b, returning "yes"/"no", respectively. This macro uses (a) \ifthenelse and (b) \equal from the if then package.
...
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Problem with nesting macros
I have written a macro to denote either the Fourier transformation (curly F by itself) or the Fourier transform of a function (curly F followed by a function and enclosed in \left( and \right) ). It ...
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Getting started with latex and conditional typeset
I'm new to latex and really do not master its dialect and concepts...sorry inadvance.
I came to it because I need to create documents that will look different based on the targeted audience.
To be ...
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Ifthen and tabularx environment
I want to have the beginning and end of a tabularx table appear only in some cases, but this does not seem to be possible. I get a "Runaway argument error". Why is wrong, or is this kind of ...
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Conditional If-then-else/xIf-then-else Packages
I'm currently working on a presentation about the packages mentioned in the title. The problem I have is, I don't really understand why anyone would use conditional statements in a LaTeX document. ...
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Using \ifthenelse inside an option
I'm trying to create a \newcommand for images which takes width as an optional parameter. This is my current command which works (but doesn't use the parameter):
\newcommand{\introimg}[3]{
\begin{...
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Hyphenation of camelCase inside an \ifthenelse while using custom hyphenation command
While writing software documentation, the need arose for a command that automatically hyphenates camelCase words at uppercase letters, e.g. camel-Case. Furthermore, these camelCase words are typeset ...
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1answer
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Checking a command with \equal and then using that command for another command?
I am trying to check the definition of a command (either arabic, roman, Roman, Alph etc.) and from this information change the formatting of section titles, while making use of the command definition ...
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Alter arguments in custom command
I would like to modify my func command in such a way that the domain/codomain arguments can be altered, e.g. so that arg=R^n yields $\mathbb{R}^n$.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{...
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Why does this test with ifthenelse not compile?
Why does the following test using \ifthenelse not compile:
\documentclass[border=30pt, tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz,tikz-3dplot}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{animate, calc}%%%%%%%%%%%%
\...
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List of Figures + Beamer? (followup)
I'm interested in making a list of figures in Beamer so that I don't have to cite each image in its caption and I can save slide space. The following example (per users Marco Daniel and Carsten) is ...
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How can I use a conditional into the ganttchart?
I've been trying use a conditional inside my Gantt chart in order to become the process of change color automatically. In this case, I just wanna color red the bars that have progress minor them 100%.
...
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automatically rescaling a document to have an even number of pages
I am trying to use the ifthen package to automatically rescale some custom vertical spaces so that if the document has an odd number of pages on the first compilation, a second compilation will reduce ...
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comparing substrings
I would like to get the following code running, but the second test fails with
! Argument of \@secondoftwo has an extra }.
What do I miss?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xstring,ifthen}
\...
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newcommand - conditional execution when parameter empty
I have following command definition (it's entry of an entrylist) which works fine:
\newcommand{\entry}[4]{%
#1&\parbox[t]{11.2cm}{%
#2%
\hfill%
#3%
\\#4%
}\\}
Now I have a ...
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ifthen condition fails for gitinfo2 metadata
I am using the gitinfo2 package (2.0.7) together with the ifthen package (v1.1c), both from TeXLive 2017, in order to include Git metadata in my document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[local]{...
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Piping a return value from one command to another command
I am making some elaborate truth tables, and I want to be able to define the further columns in terms of the initial few atomic variables, so that I don't manually have to update the whole thing for ...
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Error when checking for empty list element
When I run this MWE
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{xifthen}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\newcommand{\Entry}[6][\textwidth-3cm-16pt]{ ...
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\ifthenelse + \equal behaves weirdly
Here's a minimal example of my issue:
% test.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\begin{document}
\ifthenelse{\equal{\string\jobname}{test}} {TRUE} {FALSE}
\ifthenelse{\equal{test}{test}} ...
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Conditional output into section works, but not into chapter
I built a custom language-switch macro for my document. It seems to be working fine in some cases, but not in others. How to make this work in any case, e.g. just output the content of the first or ...
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Expanding a macro as the argument to \input results in undefined control sequence error
I'm creating a package which defines a command that looks something like this:
\newcommand{\mycommand}[2]{
\input{|"\mypackage@buildcommand{#1}{#2}"}
}
mypackage@buildcommand uses the ifthen ...
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votes
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“\ifthenelse” in minipage or tabular with “\\” in command argument
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\RequirePackage{ifthen}
\begin{document}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\coreitem}[3]{%
\ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{}}{}{#1 \\}%
\begin{...
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Is it possible to have a tcblisting environment within an \ifthenelse?
I would like to choose which code to print according to a boolean flag.
If I use my \ifthenelse with plain text it works perfectly, but if I put a tcblisting environment instead of the plain text, it ...
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Using \@currenvir in \ifthenelse [closed]
I have looked over several questions on these forums but I seem to be missing something.
I am writing a macro in LaTeX to perform one function if it is used inside an enumerate environment, another ...
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`enumdepth` and `ifthenelse`
I would like to generate text based on my current depth of the enumeration. After a little search, I found this. It seems ifthenelse is not respecting enumdepth properly. Am I doing something wrong?
...
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if FinalCompilationBooleanIsOn { use pst packages and input figures }
How to replace the C-like code ?
\documentclass{book}
% C-like code : #define FinalCompilationBooleanIsOn 1
% C-like code : if FinalCompilationBooleanIsOn {
\usepackage{pst-all}
\usepackage[...
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Using ifthen to hide page number on certain pages with a page numbering style such as roman
In my document, I want to hide certain things from the headers/footers using ifthen (rather than defining new page styles). For example, I'd like to hide the page number on the first few pages:
\...
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moderncv: How to extract the style information and use it in if-statements
I use moderncv for my CV and changed the header for the classic and the casual style (but not the other three styles), following the advice from this post:
Moderncv adding date of birth to personal ...
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Remove empty white line in between items (twentysecondcv)
I am still quite a novice at using LaTeX. I'm currently using this particular template to write my CV
https://www.latextemplates.com/template/twenty-seconds-resumecv
Sometimes I don't want to use ...
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“Intelligent” selection between “;” or “.” depending if there is one of next parameters set
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\begin{document}
\newcommand{\ABC}[4]{foo}
\renewcommand{\ABC}[4]{%
\textbf{#1:}\\
\ifthenelse{\equal{#2}{}}{}{A #2.\ }%
\ifthenelse{\equal{#3}...
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Condition on whether filename belongs to a list of filenames
From this site, I've learned how to condition on the name of my latex file. This code below returns the first line of the conditional iff the file is called test.tex
\begin{document}
\...
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ifthenelse no else with string comparison [closed]
Answer below
Issue
I am using the package xifthen to try and check if a string variable is equal to a specific string in order to input something. I only want to do something in case the test is ...
