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Pgfkeys not finding key during key expansion through several macros
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I have a caller macro that should pass options to other nested macros within it. However, the key is not found when I pass it from the caller macro, yet it is correctly defined (I think) ...
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pgf key style with no argument, or how to avoid escaping hashes
I expect a user to write something like:
\pgfkeys{
latex/.append style={
add to preamble={
\def\sayhello#1{Hello #1.}
}
},
}
but this does not work, as #1 is understood as the first ...
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How can I change the case of a pgfkeys option dynamically within the name of a macro invoked on the fly?
I hope I am describing this correctly. In a larger project, I am trying to make my document level commands CamelCase and this is proving difficult when using keys and values, intended to be used ...
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Generating pgfkeys paths using \foreach loop
I'm trying to generate a set of keys using a \foreach loop, but they don't appear to be created properly.
I've tried debugging with a handler that shows the keys, but they look correct to me in the ...
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Is there a way to retrieve the “source code” and the argument pattern from a macro for reuse (i.e. what \show shows)?
I want to concatenate the “source code” of two macros which share the same argument signature. How do I grab (i.e. expand once) the macro without TeX searching for the arguments which the macro ...
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Passing arguments using pgfkeys to a macro for including PDF files, using pdfpages
This is a slightly simplified version of a macro I've been writing (using pgfkeys and pdfpages) to include PDF files.
This seems to be working.
I ran into one bump. includepdf does not like it when ...
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pgfkeys: .store in constructed macro
I'm trying to store a value in a macro that is constructed from the arguments of another macro, but I must be missing something because the macro is not created.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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pgfkeys: expand inside a command containing style
I need to define a style contained in a macro without expanding this macro.
The problem is that if the macro contains several keys like or sets a value to a key like here:
\def\myconfiguration{text={...
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Using macros in \pgfkeys command
Is there a general way to pass a <key list> contained inside a macro to the \pgfkeys command, in order to process it in the usual way? In simple examples, \expandafter helps but I do not really ...
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Creating a custom node shape with a variable number of anchors
For the sake of training my self on PGF, I want to create such node shape having multiply ports with a selecting switch as shown below
This is my attempt to create this node for a particular number ...
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Storing options for pgfkeys inside macro
I want to define some options as a list of key-value pairs inside a macro and use that macro inside a command that takes pgfkeys-style options. Here is a MWE:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{...
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How to expand pgfkeys value when the key path contains macros?
This question represents a second, more simplified, attempt at a problem I asked about some time ago but for which I received no answer.
In short, I need to put the fully expanded result of a call to ...
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How do I expand \pgfkeys properly?
I am using pgfkeys to hold formatting parameters. The tree is set up with a set of default values, as well as customizations for various formats. Those formats each have a basic definition, which in ...
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Loading pgfkeys key values from an external file without Expl3?
This is a followup of this question. Briefly, I want to load from an external file the argument to give to \pgfkeys, but this is not trivial.
Here is an example of what I tried to do, which however ...
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pgfkey as integer for ifnum
I'm sure this has something to do with expansion, and I am quite new to using the pgfkeys package so I'm possibly missing some sort of basic practice, but I cannot find anything that remotely looks ...
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Modify `\funcdef` macro to use `pgfkeys` instead of `keyval` [closed]
I attempted to modify the \funcdef macro from egreg's solution from A macro adding or removing parenthesis automatically to use pgfkeys, but am running into some difficulty (probably related to some ...
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How to perform macro expansion in an pgfkey
I'm trying to extend the example for multilanguage support shown in here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/42791/7561
The current solution
As it is right now, one needs to define the macro using
\...
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Expanding arguments to pgf/tikz styles
In an answer on this site is proposed a method to draw arrows on paths. For example, using the style [arrow inside={pos=0.2}] will put an arrow at position 0.2 on the path :
\begin{tikzpicture}
\...
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How to store tcolorbox's (multiple) settings in a macro?
I'd like to store tcolorbox' (multiple) settings in a (single) macro (in fact, a xkeyval's \cmdKV@fam@key macro) and use them afterwards via this macro (I know I should use pgfkeys instead, but my ...
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Check the value of a pgfkey
I need to be able to check if the value of a pgfkey is empty or not. A solution I have tried (using package etoolbox):
\edef\temp{\pgfkeysvalueof{/path/key}}%
\expandafter\ifstrequal\expandafter{\...
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Changing the default value of a pgfkey
I want to create a command that can change the default value of my pgfkeys. I think the problem is that the value set as default is not expanded. Therefore the icondefaultsa below doesn't work. ...
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Using a macro inside the axis options for pgfplots
I want to create an macro to replace the string '{a,b,c}' in my code:
xticklabels={a,b,c}
so I set
\newcommand\inputnames{a,b,c}
xticklabels=\inputnames
but this gives me the same result as ...
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How can I remove outer brackets without expanding content?
I'm trying to use pgfkeys to collect information that will be passed to a clist. But, I'm not able to get this to work correctly. It seems that I'm getting brackets around the list and is prevent \...
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Expansion problems with pgfkeys
I'm using pgfkeys, and a fairly adventurous syntax in which the values for some keys contain additional key/value pairs. (For instance, the value of the nodes key is a list of pairs, and the second ...
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Undefined control sequence \pgfmath@
Why does the following code give me this error message?
Error
ERROR: Undefined control sequence.
--- TeX said ---
\pgfmath@dimen@ ...men@@ #1=0.0pt\relax \pgfmath@
l.28 \draw (\...
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