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I am trying to create two commands:

  1. A command \collect that stores a string/text.
  2. A command \callcollection that call all these stored texts placed before the command (without any configuration, just to print the text content).

I tried to mimic the parnote package strategy, but I have trouble in adapt it. (Also I did not understand the mechanism of "collect notes" and after call them.)

Basically, all my attempts was frustrated and I do not know what is going on...

Here a dummy MWE:

\documentclass{article}

\newcommand{\collect}[1]{#1}
\newcommand{\callcollection}{-- Call all previous texts in "collect" --}
\begin{document}


Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer aliquet
quam\collect{Vitae mauris tempus!} consequat. In nec neque vitae magna
pulvinar pretium.\collect{Nunc purus augue, egestas vitae lobortis at,
eleifend quis erat.  Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus
et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae.} In aliquet tortor sed tellus
\collect{Porta} et elementum diam sagittis.

\callcollection
% Here I want the \callcollection command place all the texts in previous paragraph

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer aliquet
quam\collect{Vitae mauris tempus!} consequat. In nec neque vitae magna
pulvinar pretium.\collect{Nunc purus augue, egestas vitae lobortis at,
eleifend quis erat.  Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus
et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae.} In aliquet tortor sed tellus
\collect{Porta} et elementum diam sagittis.

\callcollection
% Here I want the \callcollection command place all the texts in previous paragraph

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer aliquet
quam\collect{Vitae mauris tempus!} consequat. In nec neque vitae magna
pulvinar pretium.\collect{Nunc purus augue, egestas vitae lobortis at,
eleifend quis erat.  Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus
et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae.} In aliquet tortor sed tellus
\collect{Porta} et elementum diam sagittis.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer aliquet
quam\collect{Vitae mauris tempus!} consequat. In nec neque vitae magna
pulvinar pretium.\collect{Nunc purus augue, egestas vitae lobortis at,
eleifend quis erat.  Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus
et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae.} In aliquet tortor sed tellus
\collect{Porta} et elementum diam sagittis.

\callcollection



% Here I want the \callcollection command place all the texts in the 2 previous paragraphs


\end{document}
TheEndofTheWorld
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2 Answers2

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The scontents package provides such a store / recall mechanism. Enclose the part that you want to be able to store inside a scontents environment, and then recall it with \getstored.

\begin{scontents}[store-env=a_name]
text that you want to store
\end{scontents}

\getstored{a_name}

a_name is a name of your choice.

Miyase
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  • The other answer suited better for my porpoises, but thank you for this package suggestion! I did not know its existence, it will be very useful for me in other situations! – TheEndofTheWorld Apr 25 '22 at 17:02
  • @TheEndofTheWorld I think the command version \Scontents and \foreachsc fits better (starred version if you are going to use Verbatim)...see doc. – Pablo González L Apr 27 '22 at 04:05
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Here is a Lua-based approach:

\documentclass{article}
\directlua{buffer = {}}
\newcommand{\collect}[1]{#1\directlua{table.insert(buffer, [[#1]])}}
\newcommand{\callcollection}{\directlua{
    tex.sprint(table.concat(buffer, " "))
    buffer = {}
}}
\begin{document}

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer aliquet
quam\collect{Vitae mauris tempus!} consequat. In nec neque vitae magna
pulvinar pretium.\collect{Nunc purus augue, egestas vitae lobortis at,
eleifend quis erat.  Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus
et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae.} In aliquet tortor sed tellus
\collect{Porta} et elementum diam sagittis.


\callcollection
% Here I want the \callcollection command place all the texts in previous paragraph


Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer aliquet
quam\collect{Vitae mauris tempus!} consequat. In nec neque vitae magna
pulvinar pretium.\collect{Nunc purus augue, egestas vitae lobortis at,
eleifend quis erat.  Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus
et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae.} In aliquet tortor sed tellus
\collect{Porta} et elementum diam sagittis.


\callcollection
% Here I want the \callcollection command place all the texts in previous paragraph


Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer aliquet
quam\collect{Vitae mauris tempus!} consequat. In nec neque vitae magna
pulvinar pretium.\collect{Nunc purus augue, egestas vitae lobortis at,
eleifend quis erat.  Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus
et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae.} In aliquet tortor sed tellus
\collect{Porta} et elementum diam sagittis.


Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer aliquet
quam\collect{Vitae mauris tempus!} consequat. In nec neque vitae magna
pulvinar pretium.\collect{Nunc purus augue, egestas vitae lobortis at,
eleifend quis erat.  Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus
et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae.} In aliquet tortor sed tellus
\collect{Porta} et elementum diam sagittis.


\callcollection
% Here I want the \callcollection command place all the texts in the 2 previous paragraphs


\end{document}

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EDIT: \collect now also prints its argument (bugfix)