Timeline for TeX Community Polls
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| Mar 26 at 13:59 | comment | added | Ulrich Diez |
A possibility to change the endline-character at the time of pre-processing already appended to the characters of the current line. This would be useful for handling the first line of an xparse-+v-type argument while in expl3-mode where \endlinechar is 0 so that the first line of the argument won't be handled properly and stuff in the last line not belonging to the +v-argument any more will have the +v-endline-character (^^M) appended.
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| Mar 26 at 13:50 | comment | added | Ulrich Diez |
A prefix \word similar to \global/\long/\outer/\protected so that after \word\def\MacroHoldingWords{...} TeX does not switch the status of the reading apparatus to state S but does switch it to state M after tokenizing an instance of the argumentless control word token \MacroHoldingWords so that spaces after that control word token will not be ignored. This way the xspace-workaeound would not be needed when defining a control word token to deliver some words whereafter a space in the .tex-input should not be ignored.
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| Jul 30, 2022 at 17:31 | comment | added | Ulrich Diez |
A mechanism which truly turns a command that does not produce visible output into something that does not affect typesetting. (All variants of LaTeX's \@bsphack..\@esphack known to me have more or less subtle drawbacks.)
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| Jul 19, 2022 at 15:39 | comment | added | Ulrich Diez | The possibility of creating more than one output-file/pdf-file within one compilation of .tex-input. (That would conjure up other desires, such as wanting an interface where you can decide what things you define/set for which .pdf output files.) This might make creating cross-links between different pdf-files more easy. | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 15:37 | comment | added | Ulrich Diez | The ability to get multiple documents into a single .pdf file/output-file in one LaTeX run. And in doing so, for example, between documents, reset things like the counter for page-numbers that appear visibly on the paper. (This would be interesting, e.g., if you have multiple documents/forms in a single fillable pdf-file and at the time of filling out the form wish entries in form-fields in one document to appear entered in the other document as well.) | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 15:15 | comment | added | Ulrich Diez |
A reliable way of finding out whether two macros do the same: \catcode`\|=6 \def\foo#1|2{arg1: |1 arg2: #2}\def\bar|1#2{arg1: #1 arg2: |2}\message{Macros do \ifx\foo\bar equal \else different \fi things.}\bye yields "Macros do different things." although \foo and \bar do the same thing.
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| Jul 19, 2022 at 15:07 | comment | added | Ulrich Diez |
Expandable examination of (the shape of) a token so you can find out whether it is an explicit (non-)active character-token/an active character token/a control word token/a control symbol token/whether it is defined in terms of \long and/or \outer.
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| Jul 19, 2022 at 14:57 | comment | added | Ulrich Diez | Expandable "lookahead" at the next token. | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 14:53 | comment | added | Ulrich Diez |
A way of changing the value of \globaldefs only within the current scope even if in the current scope \globaldefs currently has a positive value.
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| Jul 19, 2022 at 14:45 | comment | added | Ulrich Diez |
Expandable comparison of balanced texts for finding out whether the balanced texts compared all consist of the same set of tokens. (As if you would define a temporary macro from each balanced text and do an \ifx-comparison to the temporary macros.) Probably this could be combined with first grabbing a <number> quantity for determining how many balanced texts to grab and to compare.
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| Jul 19, 2022 at 14:38 | comment | added | Ulrich Diez | Expandable "dynamic" delimited arguments: An expandable primitive where you can pass a delimiter and two <number>-quantities as character codes and then it grabs another argument which is delimited by that delimiter and returns it nested between explicit character tokens of respective character codes of category 1/2. Alternatively an expandable primitive where you can pass a delimiter nested in braces which grabs another argument which is delimited by that delimiter and returns it nested between such braces as were used for passing the delimiter. | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 14:55 | comment | added | iago-lito | In addition to macros, arbitrary code/script injection to automate tedious tasks, in arbitrary language. | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 14:53 | comment | added | iago-lito | Parallel compilation of beamer slides. | |
| Feb 15, 2018 at 15:15 | comment | added | Turion |
Modular compilation. I don't want to recompile the whole book just because I changed one paragraph. (And no, commenting out \include's or tikz-externalise are workarounds, and not solutions.)
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| Feb 15, 2018 at 15:14 | comment | added | Turion | Types, and a type checker. (E.g. dimensions in TikZ can be very confusing, lacking proper error messages.) | |
| Mar 19, 2017 at 10:37 | comment | added | lblb |
microtype protrusion and other features working in every use case
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| Mar 21, 2016 at 13:50 | comment | added | r0estir0bbe | A proper tool-chain | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 15:01 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Tidier syntax, so that external tools can parse a tex file more easily. | |
| Sep 28, 2013 at 9:00 | comment | added | Pygmalion | Designing support. You get a book design from a designer and you have to implement it in your document all by yourself. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 18:20 | comment | added | BeniBela | JSON input (hey, it's 2013, @topskip) | |
| Jan 5, 2013 at 2:11 | comment | added | user10274 |
A proper grid layout (\grid package doesn't work for me).
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| Nov 12, 2012 at 23:49 | comment | added | Philipp | More complete implementations of Unicode algorithms and OpenType features. | |
| Nov 12, 2012 at 23:48 | comment | added | Philipp | A real document tree, and a high-level language for arbitrary manipulations thereof – instead of TeX's single-pass traversal and macros. | |
| Oct 29, 2012 at 0:50 | comment | added | Canageek | Word's track changes feature. The accept/reject changes functionality blows diff away. | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 21:05 | comment | added | topskip | XML input (hey, it's 2011) | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 21:05 | comment | added | topskip | Some way of splitting a vbox at a point (should break an image in two parts for example) | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 21:04 | comment | added | topskip | Output to an "open" format such as InDesign (for editing afterwards) or XML | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 21:04 | comment | added | topskip | text areas with overflow capabilities ("read more on page 3") | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 21:04 | comment | added | topskip | good multi column support (balancing, images/formulae crossing multiple columns) | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 21:04 | comment | added | topskip | Autokerning based on the shape of the glyphs | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 21:04 | comment | added | topskip | Automatic paragraph flow around arbitrary shapes (like images) | |
| S Nov 1, 2011 at 14:51 | history | answered | Speldosa | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
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