Adapting from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/448977/383565, I constructed my own version of \blink. But, it doesn’t work in captions, unlike the base \href:\documentclass[a4paper, 11pt]{book}\...

I am working with an old LaTeX file originally prepared by a retired professor (on macOS, with a rather old TeX distribution).The preamble contains many packages and manual layout settings. My goal ...

I'm using the following macro to help typing:\newcommand*{\mma}{\textcolor{violet}{\textsl{Mathematica}}}%The issue is very small: It doesn't keep the space in the text, when I type something like ...

This code works and seems todo what I meant to do:\documentclass{article}\usepackage{listings}\lstdefinestyle{mystyle}{basicstyle=\ttfamily\footnotesize}\lstset{style=mystyle}\lstset{escapeinside=...

I can re-define \title like so (this code seems to work):\documentclass{article}\let\origtitle\title\renewcommand\title[1]{\gdef\mytitle{#1}\origtitle{#1}}\begin{document}\title{Foo Title}\...

Take \textcolor{#3}{#4} as a simple example. However, the actual command contains asterisked and optional arguments.If the argument #3 is green or blue, then \textcolor{#3}{#4}should produce ...

I have defined the following commands for my latex document:\newcommand{\uat}[2]{\ifthenelse{\equal{#2}{}}{\boldsymbol{u}_{#1}}{\boldsymbol{u}_{#1}(#2)}}\newcommand{\opt}[1]{\ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{}}...

I want to create a custom command (control sequence) whose name contains special characters (such as numbers, underscores _, or -). In order to better distinguish different commands, my code is as ...

If you define \bletter with \DeclareRobustCommand\bletter[1]{\textbf{#1}} it works fine even within section commands. But if you want to use it in an \edef or \xdef command, \bletter will be broken (...

In section 6.1 of clsguide.pdf (link: https://www.ctan.org/pkg/clsguide), under "Commands superseded for new material", the class guide lists the command \DeclareRobustCommand and \...

I would like to use smaller fonts for the subscripts and superscripts in a user-defined LaTeX command. Do you have any ideas how to scale down the subscripts/superscripts proportionally? My MWE is the ...

In his answer to a recent question of mine, @egreg advised \newcommand instead of \NewDocumentCommand to define a container for a text. And I'm aware of this (10 years old!) question where:Joseph ...

So I have been trying to make a command to display my very particular notation for restriction, but I believe parts of it involve text commands and other parts involve math commands, I thought I had ...

I made a command \statementinput which makes a table easily with given two lists of elements. Most of the elements are math formulas, and I don't want to put each of them in \(\), so I used the array ...

Is there a way to use the newer \(...\) math syntax in arguments for any commands from algpseudocode (algorithmicx)? The documentation and virtually any other tutorial uses the TeX-primitive $...$....