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In some hand-me-down tex i inherited, a control sequence is used as a variable, for instance:
defaccessflavorats
it is used to generate postfixes on included tex files (called, i.e., image01_ats) and the like.
I want to use it in a conditional structure, i. e. something like
ifaccessflavor ats
This text is only shown if the Flavor of Access is 'ats'.
fi
I tried a a lot of variations, including various brackets, escape sequences and macros, but i cannot get it to work. Mostly, not even an error message appears. The online examples i found either deal with a more specific IF, like ifodd, ifx, etc., or more (seemingly) complex cases like testing two macros for identity.
Can somebody clear up the usage for me?
ifthenelse
edited Apr 15 at 15:18
Kurt
41.5k950164
asked Apr 15 at 14:54
bukwyrmbukwyrm
1212
add a comment |
In some hand-me-down tex i inherited, a control sequence is used as a variable, for instance:
defaccessflavorats
it is used to generate postfixes on included tex files (called, i.e., image01_ats) and the like.
I want to use it in a conditional structure, i. e. something like
ifaccessflavor ats
This text is only shown if the Flavor of Access is 'ats'.
fi
I tried a a lot of variations, including various brackets, escape sequences and macros, but i cannot get it to work. Mostly, not even an error message appears. The online examples i found either deal with a more specific IF, like ifodd, ifx, etc., or more (seemingly) complex cases like testing two macros for identity.
Can somebody clear up the usage for me?
ifthenelse
edited Apr 15 at 15:18
Kurt
41.5k950164
asked Apr 15 at 14:54
bukwyrmbukwyrm
1212
I can recommend themultiaudiencepackage which allows you to separate some parts of your text for different "audiences" and provides higher-level switches. As part of this, you can use itsCurrentAudiencevariable to get the audience you are currently writing for (e.g. for file names).
– TeXnician
Apr 15 at 14:57
add a comment |
In some hand-me-down tex i inherited, a control sequence is used as a variable, for instance:
defaccessflavorats
it is used to generate postfixes on included tex files (called, i.e., image01_ats) and the like.
I want to use it in a conditional structure, i. e. something like
ifaccessflavor ats
This text is only shown if the Flavor of Access is 'ats'.
fi
I tried a a lot of variations, including various brackets, escape sequences and macros, but i cannot get it to work. Mostly, not even an error message appears. The online examples i found either deal with a more specific IF, like ifodd, ifx, etc., or more (seemingly) complex cases like testing two macros for identity.
Can somebody clear up the usage for me?
ifthenelse
edited Apr 15 at 15:18
Kurt
41.5k950164
asked Apr 15 at 14:54
bukwyrmbukwyrm
1212
In some hand-me-down tex i inherited, a control sequence is used as a variable, for instance:
defaccessflavorats
it is used to generate postfixes on included tex files (called, i.e., image01_ats) and the like.
I want to use it in a conditional structure, i. e. something like
ifaccessflavor ats
This text is only shown if the Flavor of Access is 'ats'.
fi
I tried a a lot of variations, including various brackets, escape sequences and macros, but i cannot get it to work. Mostly, not even an error message appears. The online examples i found either deal with a more specific IF, like ifodd, ifx, etc., or more (seemingly) complex cases like testing two macros for identity.
Can somebody clear up the usage for me?
ifthenelse
ifthenelse
edited Apr 15 at 15:18
Kurt
41.5k950164
asked Apr 15 at 14:54
bukwyrmbukwyrm
1212
edited Apr 15 at 15:18
Kurt
41.5k950164
asked Apr 15 at 14:54
bukwyrmbukwyrm
1212
edited Apr 15 at 15:18
Kurt
41.5k950164
edited Apr 15 at 15:18
Kurt
41.5k950164
edited Apr 15 at 15:18
Kurt
41.5k950164
41.5k950164
asked Apr 15 at 14:54
bukwyrmbukwyrm
1212
asked Apr 15 at 14:54
bukwyrmbukwyrm
1212
asked Apr 15 at 14:54
bukwyrmbukwyrm
1212
1212
I can recommend themultiaudiencepackage which allows you to separate some parts of your text for different "audiences" and provides higher-level switches. As part of this, you can use itsCurrentAudiencevariable to get the audience you are currently writing for (e.g. for file names).
– TeXnician
Apr 15 at 14:57
add a comment |
I can recommend themultiaudiencepackage which allows you to separate some parts of your text for different "audiences" and provides higher-level switches. As part of this, you can use itsCurrentAudiencevariable to get the audience you are currently writing for (e.g. for file names).
– TeXnician
Apr 15 at 14:57
I can recommend the
multiaudience package which allows you to separate some parts of your text for different "audiences" and provides higher-level switches. As part of this, you can use its CurrentAudience variable to get the audience you are currently writing for (e.g. for file names).– TeXnician
Apr 15 at 14:57
I can recommend the
multiaudience package which allows you to separate some parts of your text for different "audiences" and provides higher-level switches. As part of this, you can use its CurrentAudience variable to get the audience you are currently writing for (e.g. for file names).– TeXnician
Apr 15 at 14:57
add a comment |
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documentclassarticle
defatscomparetokenats
newcommanddomytest%
ifxatscomparetokenaccessflavor MATCHES atselse DOES NOT MATCH atsfi
begindocument
defaccessflavorats
domytest
defaccessflavorpdq
domytest
enddocument
answered Apr 15 at 15:01
Steven B. SegletesSteven B. Segletes
163k9207419
Thank you! Can you explain what is going on? If i understand it correctly, you def-ed atscomparetoken so that the ifx could work on two tokens - is there a reason you packed the whole thing into a command? Also, do you know why one needs the string as an expansion inside a token (for the ifx case it is clear, but why dies if not work?)
– bukwyrm
Apr 15 at 15:22
@bukwyrm Correct, theifxworks on two tokens, and the comparison is whether the substitution text (one level of expansion) for the two tokens matches or not. The problem with trying to do this withifis thatiffully expands and then compares the first two tokens; thus,ifaccessflavor atsexpands toif atsatsandais compared tot, with the remainingsatsextraneous.
– Steven B. Segletes
Apr 15 at 15:50
add a comment |
If you want to maintain the if...else...fi structure, you can use
documentclassarticle
usepackagepdftexcmds
makeatletter
newcommandflavor[1]%
TTfi
ifnumpdf@strcmp#1accessflavor=z@
makeatother
begindocument
defaccessflavorats
Shown
ifflavorats
This text is only shown if the Flavor of Access is `ats'.
fi
defaccessflavornotats
Not shown
ifflavorats
This text is only shown if the Flavor of Access is `ats'.
fi
enddocument
The usage of pdftexcmds is to obtain engine independence, so the code works with pdftex, luatex and xetex.
The trick is that if expands tokens.
Note that this can be used inside other conditionals.
answered Apr 15 at 15:29
egregegreg
735k8919343259
add a comment |
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documentclassarticle
defatscomparetokenats
newcommanddomytest%
ifxatscomparetokenaccessflavor MATCHES atselse DOES NOT MATCH atsfi
begindocument
defaccessflavorats
domytest
defaccessflavorpdq
domytest
enddocument
answered Apr 15 at 15:01
Steven B. SegletesSteven B. Segletes
163k9207419
Thank you! Can you explain what is going on? If i understand it correctly, you def-ed atscomparetoken so that the ifx could work on two tokens - is there a reason you packed the whole thing into a command? Also, do you know why one needs the string as an expansion inside a token (for the ifx case it is clear, but why dies if not work?)
– bukwyrm
Apr 15 at 15:22
@bukwyrm Correct, theifxworks on two tokens, and the comparison is whether the substitution text (one level of expansion) for the two tokens matches or not. The problem with trying to do this withifis thatiffully expands and then compares the first two tokens; thus,ifaccessflavor atsexpands toif atsatsandais compared tot, with the remainingsatsextraneous.
– Steven B. Segletes
Apr 15 at 15:50
add a comment |
documentclassarticle
defatscomparetokenats
newcommanddomytest%
ifxatscomparetokenaccessflavor MATCHES atselse DOES NOT MATCH atsfi
begindocument
defaccessflavorats
domytest
defaccessflavorpdq
domytest
enddocument
answered Apr 15 at 15:01
Steven B. SegletesSteven B. Segletes
163k9207419
Thank you! Can you explain what is going on? If i understand it correctly, you def-ed atscomparetoken so that the ifx could work on two tokens - is there a reason you packed the whole thing into a command? Also, do you know why one needs the string as an expansion inside a token (for the ifx case it is clear, but why dies if not work?)
– bukwyrm
Apr 15 at 15:22
@bukwyrm Correct, theifxworks on two tokens, and the comparison is whether the substitution text (one level of expansion) for the two tokens matches or not. The problem with trying to do this withifis thatiffully expands and then compares the first two tokens; thus,ifaccessflavor atsexpands toif atsatsandais compared tot, with the remainingsatsextraneous.
– Steven B. Segletes
Apr 15 at 15:50
add a comment |
documentclassarticle
defatscomparetokenats
newcommanddomytest%
ifxatscomparetokenaccessflavor MATCHES atselse DOES NOT MATCH atsfi
begindocument
defaccessflavorats
domytest
defaccessflavorpdq
domytest
enddocument
answered Apr 15 at 15:01
Steven B. SegletesSteven B. Segletes
163k9207419
documentclassarticle
defatscomparetokenats
newcommanddomytest%
ifxatscomparetokenaccessflavor MATCHES atselse DOES NOT MATCH atsfi
begindocument
defaccessflavorats
domytest
defaccessflavorpdq
domytest
enddocument
answered Apr 15 at 15:01
Steven B. SegletesSteven B. Segletes
163k9207419
answered Apr 15 at 15:01
Steven B. SegletesSteven B. Segletes
163k9207419
answered Apr 15 at 15:01
Steven B. SegletesSteven B. Segletes
163k9207419
answered Apr 15 at 15:01
Steven B. SegletesSteven B. Segletes
163k9207419
163k9207419
Thank you! Can you explain what is going on? If i understand it correctly, you def-ed atscomparetoken so that the ifx could work on two tokens - is there a reason you packed the whole thing into a command? Also, do you know why one needs the string as an expansion inside a token (for the ifx case it is clear, but why dies if not work?)
– bukwyrm
Apr 15 at 15:22
@bukwyrm Correct, theifxworks on two tokens, and the comparison is whether the substitution text (one level of expansion) for the two tokens matches or not. The problem with trying to do this withifis thatiffully expands and then compares the first two tokens; thus,ifaccessflavor atsexpands toif atsatsandais compared tot, with the remainingsatsextraneous.
– Steven B. Segletes
Apr 15 at 15:50
add a comment |
Thank you! Can you explain what is going on? If i understand it correctly, you def-ed atscomparetoken so that the ifx could work on two tokens - is there a reason you packed the whole thing into a command? Also, do you know why one needs the string as an expansion inside a token (for the ifx case it is clear, but why dies if not work?)
– bukwyrm
Apr 15 at 15:22
@bukwyrm Correct, theifxworks on two tokens, and the comparison is whether the substitution text (one level of expansion) for the two tokens matches or not. The problem with trying to do this withifis thatiffully expands and then compares the first two tokens; thus,ifaccessflavor atsexpands toif atsatsandais compared tot, with the remainingsatsextraneous.
– Steven B. Segletes
Apr 15 at 15:50
Thank you! Can you explain what is going on? If i understand it correctly, you def-ed atscomparetoken so that the ifx could work on two tokens - is there a reason you packed the whole thing into a command? Also, do you know why one needs the string as an expansion inside a token (for the ifx case it is clear, but why dies if not work?)
– bukwyrm
Apr 15 at 15:22
Thank you! Can you explain what is going on? If i understand it correctly, you def-ed atscomparetoken so that the ifx could work on two tokens - is there a reason you packed the whole thing into a command? Also, do you know why one needs the string as an expansion inside a token (for the ifx case it is clear, but why dies if not work?)
– bukwyrm
Apr 15 at 15:22
@bukwyrm Correct, the
ifx works on two tokens, and the comparison is whether the substitution text (one level of expansion) for the two tokens matches or not. The problem with trying to do this with if is that if fully expands and then compares the first two tokens; thus, ifaccessflavor ats expands to if atsats and a is compared to t, with the remaining sats extraneous.– Steven B. Segletes
Apr 15 at 15:50
@bukwyrm Correct, the
ifx works on two tokens, and the comparison is whether the substitution text (one level of expansion) for the two tokens matches or not. The problem with trying to do this with if is that if fully expands and then compares the first two tokens; thus, ifaccessflavor ats expands to if atsats and a is compared to t, with the remaining sats extraneous.– Steven B. Segletes
Apr 15 at 15:50
add a comment |
If you want to maintain the if...else...fi structure, you can use
documentclassarticle
usepackagepdftexcmds
makeatletter
newcommandflavor[1]%
TTfi
ifnumpdf@strcmp#1accessflavor=z@
makeatother
begindocument
defaccessflavorats
Shown
ifflavorats
This text is only shown if the Flavor of Access is `ats'.
fi
defaccessflavornotats
Not shown
ifflavorats
This text is only shown if the Flavor of Access is `ats'.
fi
enddocument
The usage of pdftexcmds is to obtain engine independence, so the code works with pdftex, luatex and xetex.
The trick is that if expands tokens.
Note that this can be used inside other conditionals.
answered Apr 15 at 15:29
egregegreg
735k8919343259
add a comment |
If you want to maintain the if...else...fi structure, you can use
documentclassarticle
usepackagepdftexcmds
makeatletter
newcommandflavor[1]%
TTfi
ifnumpdf@strcmp#1accessflavor=z@
makeatother
begindocument
defaccessflavorats
Shown
ifflavorats
This text is only shown if the Flavor of Access is `ats'.
fi
defaccessflavornotats
Not shown
ifflavorats
This text is only shown if the Flavor of Access is `ats'.
fi
enddocument
The usage of pdftexcmds is to obtain engine independence, so the code works with pdftex, luatex and xetex.
The trick is that if expands tokens.
Note that this can be used inside other conditionals.
answered Apr 15 at 15:29
egregegreg
735k8919343259
add a comment |
If you want to maintain the if...else...fi structure, you can use
documentclassarticle
usepackagepdftexcmds
makeatletter
newcommandflavor[1]%
TTfi
ifnumpdf@strcmp#1accessflavor=z@
makeatother
begindocument
defaccessflavorats
Shown
ifflavorats
This text is only shown if the Flavor of Access is `ats'.
fi
defaccessflavornotats
Not shown
ifflavorats
This text is only shown if the Flavor of Access is `ats'.
fi
enddocument
The usage of pdftexcmds is to obtain engine independence, so the code works with pdftex, luatex and xetex.
The trick is that if expands tokens.
Note that this can be used inside other conditionals.
answered Apr 15 at 15:29
egregegreg
735k8919343259
If you want to maintain the if...else...fi structure, you can use
documentclassarticle
usepackagepdftexcmds
makeatletter
newcommandflavor[1]%
TTfi
ifnumpdf@strcmp#1accessflavor=z@
makeatother
begindocument
defaccessflavorats
Shown
ifflavorats
This text is only shown if the Flavor of Access is `ats'.
fi
defaccessflavornotats
Not shown
ifflavorats
This text is only shown if the Flavor of Access is `ats'.
fi
enddocument
The usage of pdftexcmds is to obtain engine independence, so the code works with pdftex, luatex and xetex.
The trick is that if expands tokens.
Note that this can be used inside other conditionals.
answered Apr 15 at 15:29
egregegreg
735k8919343259
answered Apr 15 at 15:29
egregegreg
735k8919343259
answered Apr 15 at 15:29
egregegreg
735k8919343259
answered Apr 15 at 15:29
egregegreg
735k8919343259
735k8919343259
add a comment |
add a comment |
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I can recommend the
multiaudiencepackage which allows you to separate some parts of your text for different "audiences" and provides higher-level switches. As part of this, you can use itsCurrentAudiencevariable to get the audience you are currently writing for (e.g. for file names).– TeXnician
Apr 15 at 14:57