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How to set a minimum width for \dotfill 19

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10 Taking a look at how `\dotfill` is actually defined will help us understand how relatively simple this task really is:

Skillmon

Remember where a coffin was placed 43

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10 I don't know whether there's a nicer interface to this, but there is the newish (introduced in 2023-11-01) `\RecordProperties` mechanism to store the current position on the page.

Skillmon

How to temporarily skip the utilisation of a hook? 5

samcarter samcarter

Customize Table of Contents without breaking tagging?

Anonymous 13920 Anonymous 13920

How to cross out a line in a table 3

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10 One way is to use `nicematrix`. This avoids the need to add marks in the body of the tabular.

user 3.14159

8 Here is a solution with recent versions of `nicematrix` (the code is shorter than with other solutions which were using older versions of `nicematrix`).

F. Pantigny

7 One approach using `tikzmark` (but please don't make such data-prison-style tables):

samcarter

4 One can achieve this effect by placing a shifted `\hline`.

Skillmon

How to list all the declared L3 variables? 1

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7 There is nothing built into L3 that could do that. No bookkeeping of macro names or defined keys is done. You could enrich your file with custom markup that keeps track of it (as for a glossary, or as in `l3doc` using `macro` and `function` environments).

Skillmon

What qualifies as a property in the `l3prop` module? 16

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Why don't we have a way to append to `prop` lists? 20

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14 Simply, because it's not a core feature of properties that's been required by the team. A property list is a list of keys/values. The fact that you might want to store things that are extended is secondary - at any one time, each key has an exact value.

Joseph Wright

Tikz: How to define a custom style key and apply it to a pic?

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Anonymous 13902 Anonymous 13902

Thanks, about `\cs_use:c`: I saw the PR. It mentions `\cs_use:N` also. Probably to generate `\cs_use:c`? Not sure. Sad that it didn't make it to the code. Any chance of getting to see `\cs_use:N` in the future?

For `bool`, unlike `zero` and `clear`, we have a strictly limited range of settings, so we never really need to 'reset to empty' - a `bool` is always exactly `true` or `false`, and initialisation isn't really the same

LaTeX3 puzzles: 1. Extending the analogy of having `\cs_show:c` and not `\show:c`, why don't we have `\cs_use:c`? `\use:c` doesn't really fit well in the suffixed functions. Well, it may make sense because of the `:c`, but that was an option for `\show` too. Maybe because `\cs_show:N` was needed, `\cs_show:c` was just generated as a variant and since `\cs_use:N` was never required, `\use:c` sufficed, but it still feels like an odd person out. 2. Why don't we have `\bool_(g)false_new:N` following the `gclear` and `gzero` paradigm?