26 Mar
2026
26 Mar
'26
9:49 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 01:25:27PM +0100, Torsten Schnitter wrote:
Is it possible to build an if/else block within tex code and check on special content of a variable so you can do different things depending on the content of the variable? All I could find so far is just to check if the variable is not empty (\edef\tmp{\the\copyrights}\ifx\tmp\empty\else...\fi).
Sounds like you want `\if`: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX/if
\def\thcontentA{a} \def\thcontentB{b} ... % if content is "a": \ifx\thvariable\thcontentA .... \fi % if content is "b": \ifx\thvariable\thcontentB .... \fi
Untested, but I think you can just replace `\ifx` with `\if` in the above and it'll work. Cheers, Olly