Using a generic way to evaluate global document options

Asked Sep 27 '14 at 09:37

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I am looking for a way to easily define and evaluate additional global document options.

Right now I am using

\documentclass[12pt,ngerman]{scrartcl}

as the first line of my documents, I'd like to add more variables, for instance board or management and later use switches like \ifoption{management}{then text}{else text}

I have found the ifdraft package by Heiko Oberdiek which implements the desired behavior for draft and final options and was able to adjust if for the variable state:

\documentclass[state]{article}

\makeatletter
\newif\if@state
\newif\if@option@state
\DeclareOption{state}{%
\@statetrue
\@option@statetrue
}
\ProcessOptions*\relax

\newcommand*{\ifstate}{%
\if@state
\expandafter\@firstoftwo
\else
\expandafter\@secondoftwo
\fi
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\ifstate{State was set}{State was not set}

\end{document}

Is there a way to generalize this? For example by simply defining a command \newglobal{state} and encapsulating the rest in a package?

edited Sep 27 '14 at 14:19

asked Sep 27 '14 at 09:37

Uwe Ziegenhagen

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\ProcessOptions should belong in a class or package, not in a document. – egreg Sep 27 '14 at 10:30
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Why not create one extra (local) style file that processes these options via the standard mechanisms? – Andrew Swann Sep 27 '14 at 10:50
@egreg: Yes, the goal is to have a package that handles the definition, unfortunately it's far beyond my TeX knowledge. – Uwe Ziegenhagen Sep 27 '14 at 14:20
All global options are passed to the loaded packages. – egreg Sep 27 '14 at 14:29
If you are only interested in boolean flags \newif is pretty flexible... – Bordaigorl Sep 27 '14 at 14:57

Using a generic way to evaluate global document options

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