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{grouping} is about the grouping mechanism in TeX, and about local and global assignments.

A group in TeX starts with { or \bgroup and ends with } or \egroup, or starts with \begingroup and ends with \endgroup. Many assignments are local within a group and influence only the code of that group. But there are some assignments that are always global and ignore group boundaries, e.g. box size assignments, font assignments, hyphenation assignments.

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Global scope or permanent length or savebox

I am trying to save a minipage width and height in one environment, and use these dimensions in a subsequent environment of mine, to make a picture environment. The idea is to create a picture on the right of the minipage using the rest of the…
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Wrapping text with curly braces

This is probably a duplicate, but since Google doesn't allow me to search on the curly braces { or } I cannot find the information. The question: why can I just do {Some text}? How do I call this? I seem I lack some knowledge to put this into Latex…
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Grouping mainmatter prevents chapter count

When I group my mainmatter to prevent it of inserting a blank page, my chapter numbering dissapears as well. I can't seem to find any work-around or even why this is…
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Some minor question about grouping in TeX

In relation to the size of fonts I used to regard something like \Huge as a switch, \Huge{} as restricted to . Apparently not so. It turns out that proper grouping requires {\Huge ...}. I just wondered what the distinction…
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What is the cost of TeX grouping?

While developing some package I end up with a dilemma: either a small number of TeX groups but many scratch variables or a small number of scratch variables but many TeX groups I have the impression that solution 1 is much more frequent that…
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Problem to store number with ifeqcase from xstring

I need the value of a variable, set in ifeqcase, outside of ifeqcase. For example this code doesn't…
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Span figure across margin and textbody in twoside: Assigning savebox locally

For twosidedocuments, I'd like my wide images and tables to span both the margin and the text. In my approach, I have created a command, which takes the input and stores in in a save box, measures its total height, and places in in a minipagein the…
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