Utilities: Miscellaneous utilities

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Miscellaneous utilities

Description

Miscellaneous utilities

Usage

drop_items(items, which)

select_items(items, which)

drop_whitespace(items)

include_whitespace(items, which)

split_list(items, splits)

split_latex(items, splits)

new_block(items)

Arguments

items	A LaTeX2 object or list of items.
which	Which items to operate on.
splits	Which items divide the parts?

Value

drop_items() returns the list of items with specific items removed.

select_items() returns the list of subsetted items.

drop_whitespace() returns the items with whitespace (blanks, tabs, newlines) removed.

include_whitespace() returns which with following whitespace (blanks, tabs, newlines) included.

split_list() returns a list of pieces separated at the splits.

split_latex() returns a list of pieces separated at the splits. Each piece is marked as a LaTeX2 object.

A BLOCK item containing the items.

Note

drop_whitespace() will drop the whitespace that separates text items, so deparsing will merge them into a single item.

See Also

drop_whitespace() does not act recursively; use reduce_whitespace for that.

Examples

new_block(parseLatex("abc"))

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