Ulrike Fischer

add a command to scale a dimension expression

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Currently adding a scale factor to a dimension expression is rather difficult. None of the "natural" syntax really works. ~~~~ \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \ExplSyntaxOn %\dim_set:Nn \l_tmpa_dim {2*\dim_max:nn {10pt}{15pt}} % errors \dim_set:Nn...

I would like to process keys in two steps. I also would like to setup some meta keys which can contain keys of both groups. Currently this doesn't work: when...

document behaviour of setting a value with c-variants

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Using c-variants to set a variable sometimes simply silently creates this variable (if one doesn't use check-declarations): ~~~~ \documentclass{article} %\usepackage[check-declarations]{expl3} \usepackage{expl3} \begin{document} \ExplSyntaxOn \prop_gput:cnn {g_xxxx_prop}{abc1}{abc} %no error \prop_gput:Nnn \g_xxxx_prop {abc2}{abc}...

l3color: add a test if a name color has been declared.

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Currently this simply errors: ~~~~ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{l3color} \ExplSyntaxOn \color_parse:nN {myblue}\l_tmpa_tl \ExplSyntaxOff \begin{document} some text \end{document} ~~~~ It would be nice if one could test first if the color exists (without...

power calculation with negative base

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The documentation says about ` \fpeval{x**y}`: > If operand1 is negative ... then the result’s sign ... is (−1)^p if the operand2 is p/q with p integer and q odd;...

\addperiod after capital letter is handled like dot

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In the following example I expected the \addexclam to be "eaten" by the period in both citations. But actually it remains if there is a capital letter before the period....

running l3build in the testfiles folder

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Currently when saving a test I have to type the full file name as I'm outside the testfolder and tab completion doesn't work. The alternative is to use tab completation...

Escape/normalise special chars in paths: spaces, &, etc.

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Running `l3build check` in `latex2e/base` in a miktex installation which has a space in the installation path fails with ~~~~ Running l3build with target "check" with configuration build Script file...

support files with non-ascii chars im name are not copied to the build dir

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I have (on windows 10) a file `grüße.txt` in a support folder. This file is not copied to the build dir. Another file with ascii in the same dir works...

nested minipage highjacks the footnote

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Reference: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/504688/2388 (here with todonotes) A nested minipage grabs footnotes from the outer minipage: ```latex \RequirePackage{latexbug} \documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document} \section{nested} \begin{minipage}{6cm} some text\footnote{footnote A} \hspace*{3cm}% \begin{minipage}{3cm} nested \end{minipage} some text \footnote{footnote...