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I am using the subcaption package with hyperref. If I allow hyperref to redefine LaTeX internals (implicit option set to true), everything works fine. If, however, I do not want a hyperlinked document and set hyperref's implicit=false option, subcaption's \subref macro generates errors ...

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I'm recently using a lot of macros that have to check if an argument is supplied empty (usually an optional argument, but I don't suppose that matters). In other people's code I noticed two typical ways of doing it in plain LaTeX.

\documentclass{minimal}

\newcommand*{\detokenizetest ...

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I am using XeLaTeX and Gentium Plus. I need to print lowercase-uppercase pairs of letters, some of which bear acute accents. However, acute accents are steeper on lowercase letters than they are on capitals. I understand why this is desirable in normal text, but in a table with the ...

It worked! Your solution is trivially integrated into the MWE and solves the problem.

I would probably spend a good few more weeks fooling around with \expandafter's; switching arguments around and reading+inserting the square brackets in a separate step is a new trick to me. I will think on how to ...

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I have come across an interesting problem with floats. As I was writing some wrapper environments, I noticed that the optional position argument cannot be processed correctly, if it is first stored and then retrieved from a temporary `storage' macro. In th MWE below, myfloatone ...

Fixed up a solution using the \VerbatimOut facility of the fancyvrb package, with export of each row to an external file and using the code twice---once to determine the size and once to print the correctly aligned row. It all happens on the same run. Had to redefine \panel for the size ...

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I got stuck on designing easy-to-use command wrappers for multipanel floats (i.e. subfigures/subtables) built around the subcaption package. The problem has to do with vertical alignment of the individual panels of the float: the 'default' behaviour I have observed is bottom ...

With multicol it's important to keep track of any superfluous whitespace that's introduced (a linebreak in the .tex file counts as a space, etc.) The easiest way to avoid suprises is to end every line with a comment sign. Here you also need a \noindent, for obvious reasons.


\begin{multicols}{3 ...

The empty page isn't put there by the ToC, but by \mainmatter. If you look inside the file "book.cls", you will find a definition that goes

\newcommand\mainmatter{%
\cleardoublepage
\@mainmattertrue
\pagenumbering{arabic}}

All you need is redefine \mainmatter with \clearpage instead of ...

Solved! (for the most part)

This is not nearly as cool as verbatim \write to a file would be, but it works in this particular case. I took advantage of only dealing with a finite set of control sequences, and I redefined each of them locally for the purpose of the \write command.

\def ...