Questions tagged [protected-macro]
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Protection setting \@currentlabelname to give a "name" to a \phantomsection
This is a follow-up question to nameref With Arbitrary Text and also Refer to arbitrary text (without numbering and not by section)
To summarize, the question was about how to reference to an ...
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How to Center All of the Lines of Long Text Insertions in the TOC
Consider the code which has no problem centering short text insertions in the TOC:
\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\addtocontents{toc}{\hfil\protect {\Large{\textbf{PART I.}}} \...
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Using custom units with siunitx v3 in captions - is \protect insufficient?
I am using my previously discussed custom commands (also provided below), in siunitx. Since version 3, I am no longer able to use them in captions, whereas previously, adding \protect before them ...
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How does \protected deal with arguments? Is it different than \protect?
According to this answer \protect\foo expands to something like \noexpand\protect\noexpand\foo when it gets saved to a macro (e.g. in a context like a beamer frame). I think \protected\def basically ...
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How can this complex command be broken down and explained for someone starting with Tex?
I got this Tex command, as a solution to a different problem and it works. But I have trouble understanding the details of how it works since I'm not that proficient in Latex coding and I want to ...
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How to automatically protect all the commands passed in an argument?
I need to write to an auxfile some mathematical formulas.
The following MWE does not work:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\newwrite\filehandle
\newcommand{\addToFile}[1]{\immediate\write\...
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How do you protect fragile commands or commands in general inside \bib* fields of amsrefs?
I would like to kindly inquire how to protect commands (which I would normally presume to be fragile) in the non-citable \bib* bibliographic fields of the package amsrefs.
Consider the following MWE1, ...
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how to use newlabel in journal style file with hyperref
I am using the bio.cls style file from OUP. However, there is a conflict which happens when i use hyperref.
I use:
\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}
and the compilation gives the following ...
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newcommand to apply mintinline for C++ breaks on include statements [duplicate]
Staying away from LaTeX for barely more than 2 years has devastating effects.
I think once I knew how to protect this stuff, but I have no idea now.
I defined the newcommand below to be faster in ...
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eplain packages with plain tex no longer have all needed definitions
If one uses tex rather than pdftex, one gets errors when inputting certain packages with eplain. For example, let test.tex be this file:
\input /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/eplain/eplain
\...
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Thoughts about taking LaTeX's \protect-mechanism into account?
In this question I am not asking for code.
I'm asking before I start implementing: Which direction do you think makes the most sense?
I am about to define a fully expandable macro to be used with ...
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What is the fifth possible value of \protect?
Section "11.4 Robust Commands and \protect" of source2e.pdf (File d: ltdefns.dtx Date: 2020/02/27 Version v1.5g) says that \protect can have one of five possible "values" but lists ...
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Beamer Custom ToC not working as expected
I hacked a table of frames for beamer and got a weird situation I do not understand.
\documentclass{beamer}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\listofframes{\@starttoc{lbf}}
\makeatother
\setbeamertemplate{...
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A symbol table with protection issues
I wanted to create a table of symbols that is easy to read in LaTeX, so something like:
\begin{tabular}{*4M}
< & \le & \ll & \lll \\
> & \ge & \...
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Why is \DeclareRobustCommand[*] still used by LaTeX?
As LaTeX requires eTeX now it would be much easier to replace all the definitions of robust commands with \DeclareRobustCommand[*]... by \protected[\long]\def..., wouldn't it?
Which advatages come ...
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Questions about `\cs_new:...` and friends and their TeX relatives regarding global, local, long, nopar, protected, expandable and naming
This question is two-fold. Unfortunately, one side is opinionated, i.e. something to close-vote, so I put that part at the end and hope no one notices... The other side (coming first) are serious ...
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\input{} inside \chemfig{}
I'm likely ignoring something fundamental here and was hoping for some hints. Please see the inset mwe.
Towards having a library of chemfig symbols, I see value in being able to point to a ...
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Use of \noexpand in the implementation of \TextOrMath for eTeX
In latexrelease 2015/01/01, there are two implementations of \TextOrMath: one for regular
TeX, the other one for eTeX-like engines (more precisely: those which support \protected). My question ...
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How to change zero to dotted zero in an enumitem label?
MWE
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\makeatletter
\protected\def\pmzerodot{%
\nfss@text{%
\sbox0{...
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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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What is the difference between \unexpanded and \protected in ConTeXt?
EDIT: It turns out that \unexpanded in ConTeXt is different from \unexpanded in ε-TeX, so the earlier description doesn't apply. I'll update the question accordingly.
From the ε-TeX manual:
Protected ...
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authblk with protected commands and pdflatex
When trying to use this answer to add a linked image to an author with the authblk package, somehow all the following text is shifted, with pdfLaTeX:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{scalerel}
\...
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passing a parameter to nested macro inside caption
I'm having a really hard time understanding this error in a massive document. I took the time to work out a "minimal example", so I could post the error with precision. Please, when trying to answer, ...
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Extra White Space after iftenelse in Title [duplicate]
To begin, here is a MWE:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\begin{document}
\newcommand{\titlename}[1]
{
\ifthenelse{\...
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Automatically `\protect` arguments sent to existing command
Say you are using titlecaps and you have the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlecaps}
\begin{document}
\def\makemytitle#1{{\Large \titlecap{#1}}}
\makemytitle{The lazy fox ...
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\protect vs \texorpdfstring in description lists' keys
I'm referring to chapters and sections in a description list. I want the link to include the chapter or section part as well.
I found two options to achieve this: use \protect or use \texorpdfstring. ...
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New command within glossaries ›first‹ needs to be protected?
Consider following MWE
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{xspace}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\BC{\,v.\,Chr\@ifnextchar.{}{.\relax\@\xspace}}
\newcommand\AD{\,n.\,Chr\@ifnextchar.{}{.\relax\@\xspace}}
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Write fully expanded macros to auxiliary files
Considering the following code snippet:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xparse}
% \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\NewDocumentCommand{\edeftest}{m}{\edef\test{#1}#1}
\...
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Moving arguments and \protect: coming to grips with the definitions
I'm trying to understand the precise semantics of \protect as described in the beginning of section 11.4 Robust commands and protect of the source2e document, the annotated source code of the LaTeX2e ...
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How to unprotect a command to expand it?
This is another question about protection and expansion, that I still don't understand well… (and I guess this is my problem here). I read especially How do I "unprotect" an argument?, and ...
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Correct way to compare macro definitions that contain protected macros, e.g., bibnamedelima
I'm trying to compare the content of \partnamefamily of an author's name in biblatex against a manual definition that is stored in another macro, lets call it \family, using \ifdefequal.
So, I have
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