How to create and use an array of strings?
Draw line through randomly generated points in Tikz
Plain TeX changing catcodes to make a verbatim environment
Error in \foreach
Itemize and babel cause error in TeXLive 2025
expl3 - define custom argument type which processes two undelimited TeX arguments and returns one undelimited TeX argument
Test for first iteration in LaTeX3
How to create and use an array of strings? https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=739421
How can I index into an array of "strings" (text to be typeset) in Latex? If I were to write something in Python, it might look like this: dow = [ "Sunday", "Monday", ... [programming]
asked by dedded https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=62287 Score of 8
answered by David Carlisle https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=1090
Score of 7 Draw line through randomly generated points in Tikz https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=739680
Consider the following minimal example. We draw a number of circles with random y-coordinates using the \pgfmathrandominteger command. Is it now possible to somehow access these coordinates again? I ... [tikz-pgf] [random-numbers]
asked by flawr https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=38199 Score of 8
answered by Qrrbrbirlbel https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=16595
Score of 7 Plain TeX changing catcodes to make a verbatim environment https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=739436
I am using plain TeX (LuaTeX) to make a series of macros which will let me write inline code segments. These macros would handle special characters and allow for them to be displayed as they are ... [luatex] [verbatim] [plain-tex] [catcodes]
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of 8 answered by wipet https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=51799 Score
of 5 Error in \foreach https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=739772
I am getting a weird error in a \foreach statement and it complains about the last element -- in this case it says No shape named v14 is known. If I comment out that line, it complains about the last ... [tikz-pgf] [foreach]
asked by ozsu https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=8801 Score of 7
answered by egreg https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4427 Score of
6 Itemize and babel cause error in TeXLive 2025 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=739783
I recently upgraded to TeXLive 2025, and a piece of code where I used babel inside of an itemize list is now breaking. Here is a MWE that works before the update, but not on TeXLive 2025. Note that if ... [luatex] [babel]
asked by Sean Emerich https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=306188
Score of 6 expl3 - define custom argument type which processes two undelimited TeX arguments and returns one undelimited TeX argument
https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=739774
For the sake of having fun I tried to implement expl3 argument types s and S which process two brace groupsa^\201 /a^\200\213two undelimited TeX arguments so that the first undelimited TeX argumenta^\201 /a^\200\213brace group ... [macros] [expl3] [arguments]
asked by Ulrich Diez https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=118714
Score of 6 answered by wipet https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=51799 Score
of 2 Test for first iteration in LaTeX3 https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=739692
How do I test for the first iteration when iterating through a list with LaTeX3? \documentclass{article} \ExplSyntaxOn \newcommand\CountUp[1]{\clist_map_inline:nn{#1}{##1}} \ExplSyntaxOff \begin{... [expl3] [latex3] [comma-separated-list]
asked by D.Roepo https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=7091 Score of 6
answered by Jasper Habicht https://tex.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=47927
Score of 4