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Thanks very much, Johannes for your superfast reply. I *was* wondering about the {1} vs [1] thing. I need the \ifmtarg command for something a good bit more complicated, but got completely stuck trying to get past square one.

Hi, I'm trying to get ifmtarg to work. In desparation, I tried simply to recreate the examples given in the documentation, i.e., in

ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ifmtarg/ifmtarg.pdf

The following code is cribbed almost verbatim from the above document, except that I had to ...

This is wonderful thanks, I'm now a total convert to xcolor. Thanks very much in particular for the \DefineColor macro.

Thanks for the response, Clemens. I have a pretty strong preference for colordvi because \Red{text} it's a bit less cumbersome than \textcolor{red}{text} , but more important, because colordvi gives me a whole range of colors pre-made, like \BrickRed , \BurntOrange , etc. I presume xcolor gives me a ...

Hi

I'm finding that the colordvi package doesn't work with pdflatex. Nobody else seems to have complained about this on the web, as far as I can tell. The code below displays in red when I use latex, but in black when I use pdflatex.

\documentclass{article}%
\usepackage{colordvi}
\begin{document ...

Aghh, thanks very much, I should have known that. I didn't know about \providecommand, it's just that \newcommand is so annoying about errors. But I didn't know I could do without the ifthen call.

Thanks again, Leo

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I'm trying to define a variable conditional on the setting of a counter, with an optional argument. Specifically, in the example below, the variable gOpt should return the second argument if the counter general is set to 1, and the first if the counter is set to 0 . If only one argument is ...

Thank you very much indeed, Tom, this is perfect, Leo

Hi,

I'm trying to condition on the current directory using the "currfile-abspath" package from currfile by means of ifthen . The command \getpwd does recover the pwd, but for some reason I can't condition on the value of \thepwd using ifthen. The problem seems to be with the ifthen command, since I ...

I'm working with a colleague who wants to effectively track changes on my document. I have set up macros that do things like striking out and adding text, along the lines of

\def\overstrike#1{\Red{\sf {\st{#1}}}}

but she doesn't want to type in every time she removes a comma, etc., \overstrike ...