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How to always keep the length of two sequences equal? 25

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निरंजन निरंजन

7 With the conditions

Skillmon

expl3: local vs global assignments to msg variables 3

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nsajko nsajko

6 Messages use a single namespace: the same is true for e.g. colours and keys. These are always local assignments. So I woudl favour `\msg_set:nn(nn)` over `\msg_gset:nn(nn)`.

Joseph Wright

How and when to use expl3 *local* (as opposed to *global*) variables and assignment?

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nsajko nsajko

12 As the documentation says, variables should be either _assigned_ locally or globally. However, `expl3` _declares_ all variables globally. I suspect the confusion arises as you are seeing `\<thing>_new:N` as an assignment, which while true at the underlying engine level is not what we mean in the documentation when we talk about the _programmer_ making an assignment.

Joseph Wright

8 I'd say the answer here is basically such: local variables respect scopes, while global variables don't. But:

nsajko

`\cs_new:Npn` parameter names, and when to use it instead of `\cs_new:Nn` 6

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nsajko nsajko

11 You got the `\cs_new:Npn` one wrong. TeX only ever has consecutive numeric parameters for macros, `\cs_new:Npn` doesn't change that. Keep in mind that under the hood the "functions" of `expl3` are macros (plus a few primitives), the differentiation between "function" and "variable" is just for the reader to have a better idea of when to use what (well, I don't know the initial intention of the differentiation, but it boils down to that, imho).

Skillmon

WIP: TeX, LaTeX2e, xparse/ltxcmd & expl3 ways of defining macros 37 12

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Tikz picture overlaps with text 9

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Girish Girish

10 There are two problems:

user 3.14159

TikZ with Expl3 does not produce intended output 8

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Girish Girish

8 Ti*k*Z/pgf comes with the `parser` module that can be used to address the questions raised in the comments. (There is one thing that I could not make work: spaces. However, perhaps @Skillmon sees this and tells us what to do, and perhaps updates the pgf manual.) Note also that all this is very similar to the `simpler-wick` package except of course that you do not want to use macros like `\c`. If you want to consider using `\c` instead of `<` and `>`, one could use the `simpler-wick`

user 3.14159

Deleting complement using regex_replace_all 9

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Girish Girish

9 The following code doesn't handle outer parenthesis and assumes a few things:

Skillmon

Table macro with expl3 8

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Girish Girish

13 Original answer (with small changes)

Skillmon

l3msg adds a space if the argument is a control sequence? 11

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joulev joulev

12 This is not a category code issue, rather the timing of tokenisation. You'd see this same issue in this code:

Phelype Oleinik

8 Oh, as it turns out, this has something to do with category codes[^1](I don't use the word "catcode" because I fear the cats won't give me permission to do so :)) again...

joulev

In a Mastodon post the author seems to have mentioned that this is a proof of concept. Probably that's why they have added simple looking example. It would be good if they take a look at learnlatex and prepare the course with that line of thinking

This looks like an interesting tool: https://itsfoss.com/tennis-csv-tool/ I also somehow fell totally in love with the command prompt shown in the example images. I don't really like any of the colours on their own, but somehow they work together so nicely -- long story short, I ditched the prompt, I've been using for a decade and my terminal now looks like this:

I thought the whole Claude Code leak was an April fool, but wow! https://layer5.io/blog/engineering/the-claude-code-source-leak-512000-lines-a-missing-npmignore-and-the-fastest-growing-repo-in-github-history

This is a friendly community for discussions regarding a specific topic, i.e., TeX/LaTeX. TeX and LaTeX have a history of around half a century now and asking questions, creating samples are very common practices in this community. There are several packages for generating random text (e.g., [`lipsum`](https://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum), [`kantlipsum`](https://ctan.org/pkg/kantlipsum), [`blindtext`](https://ctan.org/pkg/blindtext)). There are packages for using sample graphics in test files (e.g., [`mwe`](https://ctan.org/pkg/mwe)). None of these used the language you used in your example. Accident? No. This is done in order to avoid offending anyone. You don't care about that, so why should we care about you? More than that, the users you are targetting with your unnecessarily sarcastic replies have been here since the inception of TopAnswers and they have actively participated in building the site into a friendly forum. That is why they are a part of the flagging team. If you don't want to adhere to the bare minimum etiquette of this online forum, please find another forum that suits your writing style. This is not a place for discussing language/class politics. Feel free to change the world, but spare us.