Questions tagged [active-characters]

Question 1

I wanted to have a better looking centered dot in words for gendered-neutral expressions in French, and the simplest solution that suited me was replacing it by $\cdot$: un$cdot$e dévelopeur$\cdot$se. ...

Question 2

Can anyone guide me a little to start creating the ActiveString \usepackage{?} in the simplest possible way?, where ? is a popup menu with a large list of packages ? that I supose that should do in a ...

Question 3

The following macro \mytest should 1) evaluate it's argument and 2) typeset it verbatim. The output looks ok for me, but the log files says: LaTeX Info: Active space character found while output ...

Question 4

I am very confused about this. I am trying to build a csname from syntax like this: |ex,x;fa,y| --> \box_use:N \l__formal_exbox x and \box_use:N \l__formal_fabox y In this case the ; (and |) are ...

Question 5

I'm writing in czech with babel so there are some problems with - delimiter. The template I'm using is changing - delimiter to an active character (as the template says) for the \cline and \cmidrule ...

Question 6

For convenience (and also to deepen my LaTeX knowledge), I'm trying to define a list in a simple manner: \mylist(First, Second, Third, ...) Replacing the commas by something else (in this case by \...

Question 7

In the bodeplot package, I defined new environments using (defined like this to avoid issues with externalization of tikz graphics) \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{pgfplots,xparse} \pgfplotsset{...

Question 8

I have the following code to replace ' to \textquotesingle, because I prefer this symbol when I type an apostrophe. \makeatletter \catcode`\'=\active \def'{\textquotesingle} \makeatother The problem ...

Question 9

This is a follow up to my earlier question here: Detect catcode of next character? What I want to do: Count the number of " used in the document body. I am not using " for purposes such as ...

Question 10

This is follow up to a previous question that has been closed because it was treated wrongly. Brief recap: let \newcommand{\foo}{foo}. Having \foo in text like so test \foo bar will omit the space ...

Question 11

Goal: Have an active character not expanded when writing to file MWE \documentclass{article} \makeatletter % == Package code -- untouchable \def\foo{\@ifnextchar[{\@foo}{\@foo[x]}} \...

Question 12

There's an active character * (can be anything, asterisk just used for demonstration purposes). If the character following * is a space, write \marginpar{foo}, otherwise write \marginpar{bar}. This ...

Question 13

I'm trying to print a vertical bar symbol, but it's \active in the ltxdoc document style (this code doesn't compile): \documentclass{ltxdoc} \begin{document} This is a vertical bar: |\|| \end{document}...

Question 14

I use jinja to write templates. This makes me work with files like the one below. \documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \newcommand\devtool[1]{\...

Question 15

We (or at least I) usually think of an active character as just another command whose name just happens to a character rather than a control sequence. So why does \newcommand<active character> ...

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Questions tagged [active-characters]

Cannot use a centered dot as active character

Winedt: Can anyone guide me a little to start creating the ActiveString \usepackage{?} in WinEdt?

Active space characters

Inconsistency in expansion of active characters within \csname

replacing shortandoff{-} by xpatch parameter

Having ... (three dots) as macro name

How to handle babel active characters when writing a package?

Active character only in text mode

Active character can be defined, but not within \def?

Make only first space active

Prevent active character from being expanded in macro argument

Detect space after active character does not handle trailing formatting macro

How to print a vertical bar if it is \active?

Make <: ... :> acts like one macro

Why does \newcommand on an already defined active character not yield an error?

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