[texhax] controlling expansion

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Thu Feb 28 16:15:02 CET 2013


And what exactly would you consider empty, is \dosomething{ } empty or not?

/Lars Madsen
Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf


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From: texhax [texhax-bounces at tug.org] on behalf of Michael Doob [mdoob at cc.umanitoba.ca]
Sent: 28 February 2013 16:02
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Subject: Re: [texhax] controlling expansion

On 13-02-28 08:51 AM, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> I spent some time reading and found a good solution for determining
> whether an argument is empty in David Solomon's Advanced TeXbook:
>
>    \ifx\empty#1\empty empty \else not empty\fi
>
> Nice trick!  TeX requires a lot of lateral thinking.

Cute, but what about \empty{\empty}? :-)

Cheers,
Michael


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