Questions tagged [programming]
{programming} is about how (La)TeX can be used as a programming language.
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Is there a way to create a dynamic newcolumtype?
Is there a way to create a dynamic newcolumtype within e.g. a \newcommand such as \newcolumntype{#1}{m{50pt}}?
I tried to do something like this :
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\...
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Fun titles by splitting in letters (or words)
I want to display titles using a spelling routine I have found in this interesting discussion.
The idea is that different simple effects can be easily selected.
Unfortunately this code has some ...
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Best way to define an object with a list
The idea is to define objects like circles, or triangles with a list. I made this :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xparse,tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{through}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\NewDocumentCommand{\...
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Apply special formatting to capital letters in expl3
In my attempt to learn expl3 programming, I've hacked together a function to fake "smallcaps" by looping through a token list and enlarging any tokens that are capital letters. The code currently "...
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Switching driver after first citation
I need to tell LaTeX when citing an Incollection related to a Collection via crossref: if this is not the first citation of that collection, then use this driver instead of the usual one.
Is that ...
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How to use integer from one command into another?
I have following way to get number of spaces in a string
\ExplSyntaxOn
\NewDocumentCommand{\HowManySpaces}{ m }{
\seq_set_split:Nnn \l_tmpa_seq { } { #1 }
\int_eval:n {(\seq_count:N \l_tmpa_seq) ...
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Prevent multirow cell overflow with dynamic cell content
I have the following table layout:
The table consists of 3 columns - one column which is 25% wide, and two columns that take up equal amounts of the space left (thus 37.5% each).
The content for ...
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How can I write ASM and C listings and look like as MPLAB shows?
I'm writing a report on latex and I find difficult to set a language style for ASM e C language. I would like to set like as shows on MPLAB (see the photo). The actual code doesn't work so well. So I'...
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Invoking functions indirectly (using a string) in BibTeX
Is it possible to do indirect function calls in BibTeX styles, i.e. to get the function name from a field in the .bib? EXECUTE would be able to do that but these statements don't work within functions(...
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How to index table cells?
I have a table. I need to put some value (of a counter) in it cell and apply some format to cell depending on position of cell. For this reasons I need a indexing a cell.
I was used code for ...
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How to use \csname\endcsname in LaTeX3 way?
I have some part or code made in LaTeX2e way. I been to rewrite it in LaTeX3 way, but I have no idea how to do this. More expanation in MWE
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{xparse}
\newcounter{...
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How can I create Local commands definitions in equations?
I would like to use small local macro expansion similar to how \newcommand works but on a per environment basis.
Something that would expand
\[
\begin{local}
\local{\poly}[2][x]{#1^2 - #1^#2}
\...
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\input a file that exists either in “./” or in “./figures”
I use XFig to draw most of my figures (how old am I?) and I find convenient to export in "LaTeX+PDF" format, in which a simple LaTeX source. e.g., fig03.pdf_t (the extension is fixed), is created. ...
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Counting values by a 0.5 step before drawing an histogram
In this question, I asked how to draw an histogram showing the repartition of the marks of my students.
In the following example, I would like a have a more precise picture:
a bar for student whose ...
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Metapost plotting B-Spline recursive formula gives strange results
I am currently trying to make a general B spline basis plotter with meta post.
The definition of a basis function is on wikipedia under properties.
The knots of a b spline should have the pattern ...
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Metapost how can you return values in a recursive function?
I am trying to code the recursive definition of B splines but I am stuck writing the recursion, my code won't compile because I am trying to assign "vacuous to numeric",
According to online resources,...
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Convert string to one character with a hash table
I have a report where I mention some people. Sometimes I want to hide the real name of these people. I would like to write a macro that converts the name to a single character.
\name{John Doe} ...
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Computing the mean value in (La)TeX
I have a list of marks included in a .tex document, with the begin{filecontents*} command.
So far, I draw a histogram of the frequencies of the marks.
I would like to add the mean value.
Can you ...
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How to check a boolean argument in a command with optional arguments?
I have a command with an optional argument, and I want to execute some code depending if argument is true or false (I am sure that this command will have always some argument convertible to a boolean, ...
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How to get the sum, difference, product, and quotient from a macro in ConTeXt or Plain TeX?
I want to create a set of macros like this:
\addnumbers{2}{5}
\subtractnumbers{3}{5}
\multiplynumbers{2}{-2}
\dividenumbers{2}{8}
The first will display the number 7, adding #1 and #2.
The ...
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Drawing an histogram of the repartition of a data set
I have a dataset of marks (0 to 20), for example a [2, 3, 7, 14, 15, ...]
I would like to draw an histogram of the repartition of this dataset. What I mean is an histogram where on the x-axis are ...
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Debugging of expl3 code
I've been programming quite a bit in expl3 for the last weeks, and while I really like the expressiveness of the provided API, what often is incredibly painful is debugging larger programs.
In many ...
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How to time code execution in TeX?
Throughout time, during my conversations with members of TeX Exchange, I ran across a few ways to time execution of the code. But the pieces of this information are scattered throughout my account's ...
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LaTeX3 equivalent of C enumeration type
I'm having to store a non-binary status, what would be the more idiomatic LaTeX3 way of doing it? For instance, suppose that there are 3 possible ways to format a manuscript: long/short/medium. What ...
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automating recursive file hierarchy (directory tree) diagrams with tikz
So, I've been trying to write a python script that will produce the TikZ/LaTeX source code for one of these filesystem tree / directory structure diagrams:
Preview
Code
LaTeX: TikZ
\...
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Number formatting in PythonTeX with `sage` family
I am trying to get a special number formatting in pythontex with sage family but it doesn't work.
Here is an example which shows how it should look like and what I tried so far.
How can I make it ...
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How can I customize the latex output?
Assume I have prepared a CV, which has a section for my contact. For my webpage, I would like to have only my email in the contact section, for my job applications, I want to have my cell phone number ...
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Reset counter used program line
I have a problem with how to reset the counter in a case where I am trying to print names in one row and the telephone numbers in another row. I know I could have avoided the problem, but it is ...
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Tex for IT professionals [duplicate]
I'm working as a programmer for about 20 years and invested a lot of time into understanding programming and computers before earning money with it.
I've learned to program Java, use Windows, then ...
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modifying default tabular behaviour
I basically do all my tables the same way:
Is it possible to make tabular automate the \toprule, \midrule, \bottomrule and \hdashlines?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs,array,arydshln}
\...
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Conditioning comments [duplicate]
I'm trying to condition comments. I got some information about if/else structures in Latex and here is my first idea :
\newcounter{student}
\setcounter{student}{1}
\ifnum \value{student}=1 {\begin{...
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How can I use arrays in a PGF axis environment?
I would like to use an array in a PGF axis environment. This array would have the parameters values of a function to be plotted. I tried writing the following code:
\documentclass{standalone}
\...
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What would be the drawbacks of adding #0 for denoting the name of the macro that currently is expanded?
Assume a scenario where some macro triggers error-messages.
The error-messages shall also reveal the name of the macro which did trigger the error-message.
One could do something like this:
\...
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how to write this this long equation?
\begin{align}\nonumber
(A_{1}^{5}+A_{8}^2)\tt_{m}^{2}\k^{2}P_{m}^{5}-\left(2(A_{1}^{2}+A_{2}^2)
(\Delta_{a}-\omega_{m}\chi^{2}C)\omega_{m}\chi^{2}-2J^{2}\omega_{m}\chi^{2}
(\kappa_{a}A_{2}-\Delta_{d}...
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Macro for Automating Truth Tables
I used this truth table when writing a proof.
Unfortunately I made a tiny typo; The first time around, I misplaced an additional Ź¹ symbol, which just happened to make the output exactly wrong. It ...
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Creating a global variable to toggle (show/hide) a bunch of answer keys
I have a bunch of simple trigonometric questions for warming up. Could you make a global variable \showAnswer that accepts true or false (default) to show and hide the answer?
I prefer TeX solution ...
asked Aug 27 '19 at 13:34
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How to define a macro that takes the definition of a macro as an argument
We would like to define a macro \ellipsis that takes four argument and has the following behaviour:
\ellipsis{x^{#DUMMY#}}{0}{5}{+}
and outputs:
the pattern string #DUMMY# (which doesn't have to be ...
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programmatically drawing sinusoids with tikz
Here's eight full oscillations of a sine wave:
Here's the code:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[gray!20] (0,-2) grid (32,2); %...
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Define a `\newenvironment` that stores its content in a token register or in a macro
In the code below I want to define a new environment that stores its contents in order to use it later several times with different formats
\documentclass{article}
\newtoks\environmentcontents
\...
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Drawing an accurate guitar fretboard with TikZ
This is kind of a fun one.
dist( x ) = s / ( 2 ^ ( x / d ) )
Such that:
x = number of the fret being evaluated (let's say {0,...,24} so it's exactly 2 full octaves).
s = scale length (...
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Programmatically Illustrating Permutations
Here's an illustration of what's known as an expansion permutation (the top half). It just means that instead of going straight through (like the bottom half aka. the identity permutation), the signal ...
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writing functions and wrapping commands for abstraction
Can i write a little function (or macro or whatever) that wraps two commands (functions?) into one; united under a single alias?
Specifically I want to wrap \input{} and \includegraphics{} into a ...
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Automatically generate table with content from different environments
I am using a very simple custom environment to create exercises and their solutions. Each exercise yields a individual number of points. The number of points is defined in this way:
% First argument: ...
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Import photos directly from a folder [closed]
I just want to automate a report, but i have to add photos from a folder one after the other (all with the same termination(.jpg)), is there a macro or something that adds all the photos at once? For ...
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foreach looping error [duplicate]
Prior to posting this question, I have read the post here: OP asks the same question two or three times or does the same strange things several times
My purpose in asking same questions with ...
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Tikz language syntax
I'm hoping to add a tikz-specific language environment to my LaTeX editor (vscode), I've run into a bit of an issue looking for any speicifications for tikz grammar though.
Would anybody know of any ...
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Checking if argument is a floating point without breaking on control sequences in argument
Inspired by this answer to test whether an argument is a positive integer, I would like to extend this to floating point numbers. I want to have a macro \TestNumber that checks, whether its first ...
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LaTeX code with input dependent on some integer parameters
Suppose that I have a large number of .tex files with names 1.tex, 2.tex, ..., N.tex (with N = some integer).
I would like to write a LaTeX document, where I set some parameters for example:
howMany ...
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Smart-expansion of a range to a list of numbers
I am wondering if there is a simple way to expand some input text such as "3-7" as "3,4,5,6,7"?
For context, I am using \foreach and want to be able to write
\foreach \x in {3-7, 9, 14, 52}
and ...
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An Automatic Way to Produce “Author Contribution” Section
Background
Academic journals and other scholarly publications are beginning to adopt a standardized requirement for Author Contribution sections. This is a section in which authors are labeled based ...
