Questions tagged [key-value]
{key-value} is about packages and macros using the key=value syntax for named parameters instead of numbered parameters.
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l3keys equivalent of pgfkeys' .code 2 args
What is the recommended way to emulate pgfkeys' /.code 2 args (or more generally /.code n args) handler with l3keys? For example, with pgfkeys one can do
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfkeys}
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Strict version of \keys_set_groups:nnn
Here's a little code where the key-value allowed by the macro is an unwanted feature : for example, single[both = OK, only = KO] doesn't give any error as I'd hoped. But on the other hand, I would ...
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Setting beamer label from xparse option
I want to write a custom environment that handles some layouts that default beamer slides aren't designed to do.
I use xparse's \NewDocumentEnvironment to achieve this, but have problems passing down ...
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key property .notif is unknown
Following the example in The LaTeX Companion, 3rd edition, Part II, page 700, I'm trying the following .sty file and .tex file that loads it, but I get error:
./myfont.sty:8: LaTeX Error: The key ...
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Passing macro parameters with \DeclareKeys/\SetKeys
Just as an exercise I'm trying to make a keyval interface to amsthm's \newtheoremstyle in the manner of thmtools, but using the kernel's \DeclareKeys instead of keyval and kvsetkeys. Every argument of ...
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Multilange support - need some help in xkeyval
I'm trying to do some improvements in the multiaudience package. In particular, I would like to have one latex document containing multiple languages.
For simplification reasons the texts of the ...
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Good practice with \DeclareKeys
I'm trying to make a "one-off" theorem environment for theorems with custom names that shouldn't be numbered at all. The goal is to copy the behavior of thmtools
\declaretheorem[thmbox=M]{...
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Use of xparse macro and expl3 key-value pairs
I'm trying to set up a family of key-pairs to be used in a \NewDocumentCommand. The goal is to have a function with two key-pairs. I want to be able to get the values of the two keys within the macro, ...
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Using \DeclareKeys as a document author/designer
Say I want to use a package using l3keys for it options, e.g. I want to print numbers using siunitx's \num. I load it with my desired default options (e.g. just \usepackage{siunitx}) but have a ...
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How to find out available key-value pair for CircuiTikZ
I'm using CircuiTikZ and I came across this issue frequently: every time I want to tweak some options using tikzset, there is no documentation for the available key-value pairs.
For example, if I want ...
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\SetKeys (ltkeys): property '.default' is unknown?
Reading 'source2e.dtx' suggests that the 'l3keys' property '.default' should be available. The following MWE doesn't work as I expected though:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{color}
\...
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Handling "family=" and "given=" within the "author" field
My zotero+BetterBibTeX has exported some citations like this
@article{abduMagneticDeclinationControl1981,
title = {Magnetic Declination Control of the Equatorial {{F}} Region Dynamo Electric Field ...
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Can't make a list of keys work
I am trying to make my own chapter-heading formatting command, using a key=value approach:
\coolchap[
chapstyle=<chapter-word formatting>,
titlestyle=<chapter-title formatting>,
befchap=&...
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Define custom keys for graphicx
I would like to define some shorthand keys for includegraphics[]{} like so:
fullwidth -> width=\textwidth, halfwidth -> width=0.5\textwidth etc.
What is the best approach for this?
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Loop in a specific list to define class options
I have a class beamer-rl to create beamer presentation for RTL languages (like persian) and I need a way to include RTL language as a class option like this \documentclass[persian]{beamer-rl}
So class ...
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Options passed to babel with article class and not with beamer
In this example using article class options arabic-ma and provide=* are passed to babel, but when changing to beamer class options are not passed to babel. Is there an explanation?
\documentclass[...
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Is there a way to reset all l3keys keys to their initial value?
This is a general and documented feature of latex3, but I shall still provide an MWE in order to illustrate the problem, see below.
Suppose I have a function which uses the l3keys key-value interface, ...
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Pgfkeys associated with macros lead to unexpected results
Consider the following class:
% CLASS
% Preamble
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1994/06/01]
\ProvidesClass{myclass}[2022/10/11]
\LoadClass[varwidth]{standalone}
\makeatletter
% Pgfoptions
\RequirePackage{...
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keyval being picky about empty options
I am trying to automate the generation of beamer handouts, with the help of \pgfpagesuselayout. I want them with 2 slides on 1 page, my colleagues with 4 in landscape orientation. So we generate both ...
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Split nested and simple comma lists the same way
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{kvsetkeys,kvdefinekeys}
\makeatletter
\def\Process@Split#1{%
\if@tempswa
\edef\ST@LastName{\comma@entry}%
\typeout{* LastName:\ST@LastName}%
\@...
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Taking in optional boolean flags in a macro without expl3
I want to create a macro \verticalStep which will produce a vertical skip of fixed length, and take two optional arguments, negative and small.
So for you could use
\verticalStep for a standard ...
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Unknown options fail to pass with new expl3 method [closed]
Recently I switched my packages to use the new \ProcessKeyOptions method for processing package options. However, I just found out that with
\keys_define:nn { projlib-theorem }
{
...
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Is it safe to use \globaldefs for setting global pgf key-value pairs?
With the help of this post (Is there a way to set a *global* key value using `pgfkeys`?), I found a simpler way to implement a solution to my own question (How can I create commands using multiple ...
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How can I create commands using multiple arguments with pgfkeys in custom environments with tabulars? [duplicate]
I am trying to create my own template package.
In this package, there are several custom environments defined. One of those environments starts and ends a table, i.e:
\newenvironment{customenvtab}{\...
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How to define new key properties in l3keys
Related Meta Question
From interface3.pdf, we can see l3keys has provided several key properties such as .code:n, .tl_set:N, .usage:n. But I don't know how to define a new key property.
At this time, ...
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As of 2022, how should one build class/package options without l3keys2e? [duplicate]
In a comment of this question,David Carlisle wrote:
[l3keys2e] should be considerd legacy now, the new built in option code is based on the same core expl3 code but extended and improved so hopefully ...
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What is the best way to expand macros inside keyval input in expl3
I think LaTeX packages rarely use macros as key names. And some users expect macros inside the keyval input will be expanded recursively first. But l3keys in expl3 doesn't provide this functionality ...
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pgfkeys strips braces from argument
This is most likely a dupe of
pgfkeys overeager in stripping away my braces
If I pass {[[To]], [[From]]} to a macro as the value of an optional argument using pgfkeys, the outermost bracket is ...
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How can I define this new math mode environment with comma-separated keyval options?
My MWE using LuaLaTeX:
\documentclass[oneside,DIV=12]{scrbook}
\usepackage{scrhack}
\usepackage[automark]{scrlayer-scrpage}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[babel]{microtype}
\usepackage{...
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pgfkeys - is choice + value pass to graphicx
I'm trying to implement a macro which is a wrapper over the graphicx \includegraphics command (because I'd like to pass the parameters for cropping in a key-value fashion). While doing so, at first I ...
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listings lstdefinestyle not work with custom defined command
I defined a new command named '\showLineNo', and used in '\lstdefinestyle', got an error:
Package Listings Error: Numbers none unknown. \lstset{style=customstyleone}
sample code:
\documentclass{...
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keyval first pair not shown
How to change the following so the name1 and caption1 is also used - not only the second pair of keys:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{keyval}
\makeatletter
\define@...
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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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Check if key is set in xkeyval
I am working with the xkeyval package.
Sometimes I want to check by hand if a key is contained in a list of keys.
That is, I want a if-command like the following:
\contains@key{<family>}{<key ...
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Changing some options in \newgeometry while retaining all others by default
I have a document whose preamble says something in this style:
\RequirePackage[a=3,b=7]{geometry}
Later in the document I want to temporarily change one parameter, i.e., in pseudocode:
\newgeometry{...
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Class with keyval option consisting of lists of keyval pairs
I'm trying to figure out how to write a class that would allow for a key-value option where the key is called people, which would take a list of grouped key-value pairs (e.g., name, title, and role) ...
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How to pass the value of a command for a key (xticklabels and yticklabels of an axis environment for pgfplots)
I have a square matrix plot with identical x and y ticks and tick labels, for which I hope to use a pre-defined command to avoid repeating xticklabels and yticklabels with the same value "{A, B, ...
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Appending a token list keeps referring to it instead of copying
I actually had some workarounds and overcame my issue. But I still cannot understand some points.
I'm trying to write a command to draw a table. I started with this:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\...
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Conditional title in tcolorbox: not equivalent to an untitled box when empty
Consider the following code :
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{ifmtarg}
\usepackage{xcolor-material}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\makeboxtitle}[1]{\@ifmtarg{#1}{}{\...
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Passing a command as option in pgfkeys
I want to pass a command as an option, so that the command is applied to the argument, something like
\PrintSomething{opt = \makebox[5cm]{\textbf{\sffamily #1}}}{Hello}
which should produce the word ...
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Get one value from a pgf/tikz style
Considering
\pgfkeys{
A/.style={
key=value,
key2=value2,
}
}
how do I retrieve "value" from "A" and "key"?
After some experiments, next seems to work for at ...
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Using definitions for key-val arguments
I'm making a \logo command like the \title command used for the title page. By default, I would like to use the graphbox smash key-val arg to be tl. But later on (depending on a users choice, say by ...
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Getting the package options as a lua string, and allow arbitrary package options
I am making a lualatex-based class, which will be a thin wrapper around a lua library. I would like to use the luakeys package to process my options in lua, and would like to avoid declaring options. ...
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How to distinguish "no value" from "empty value" when setting `l3keys`?
I'm trying to create an option with l3keys such that, if it receives a value, even if an empty one, it gets added to a property list, but if it receives no value, it gets removed from the property ...
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Is there an equivalent of datatool's \DTLifhaskey for value?
I'm looking for a way to test if a (non-key) value in a column does exist. I basically want to check if
\DTLfetch{db name}{col1 name}{col1 value}{col2 name}
is giving me a value from the db or an '...
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noframenumbering in Metropolis' standout frames
I would like to make it optional to exclude the standout frames from the beamer theme Metropolis from the frame count. This works as long as I write my frame options as noframenumbering, standout. But ...
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Is it possible to define key macros without the equality sign (i.e., [keya=value])
I was wondering if the xkeyval package allows for defining key macros which do not include an equality symbol.
For instance, I wish to create a package based on the geometry package with the following ...
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The 'inverted' attribute is not recognized if a \DefineName abbreviation is used in an AMSRefs \bib entry
In Section 8.1 of the AMSRefs package documentation, it is explained that to properly typeset author names that are to be written with the family name first, one should set the attribute inverted on ...
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Entering ten authors in an AMSRefs \bib entry using \DefineName abbreviations throws an rkeyval error
I am using the commands \DefineName, \DefineJournal and \DefinePublisher to use abbreviations in my bibliography along the lines mentioned in Section 8.4 of the AMSRefs package documentation. Now, I ...
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How to construct a macro with key=value by \pgfkeys
I just learn \pgfkeys, but don't quite understand how to use it for making a macro with key=value options.
I'd like to give the following simple example as a practice to show my idea.
\documentclass{...
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