This package allows to store LaTeX code, including verbatim, in ⟨sequences⟩ using the l3seq module of expl3. The ⟨stored content⟩ can be used as many times as desired in the document, additionally you can write to ⟨external files⟩ or show it in ⟨verbatim style⟩. This package is fully compatible with tagged PDF.

The minimum required is LaTeX release 2024-11-01.

The package ⟨scontents⟩ is present in TeX Live and MiKTeX, use the package manager to install.

For manual installation, download scontents.zip and unzip it, then run:

$ luatex scontents.ins

and move all files to appropriate locations:

  scontents.tex      -> TDS:tex/generic/scontents/scontents.tex
  scontents-code.tex -> TDS:tex/generic/scontents/scontents-code.tex
  scontents.sty      -> TDS:tex/latex/scontents/scontents.sty
  t-scontents.mkiv   -> TDS:tex/context/third/scontents/t-scontents.mkiv
  scontents.pdf      -> TDS:doc/latex/scontents/scontents.pdf
  scontents.dtx      -> TDS:source/latex/scontents/scontents.dtx
  scontents.ins      -> TDS:source/latex/scontents/scontents.ins

then run mktexlsr. To produce the documentation with source code run luatex scontents.ins and lualatex scontents.dtx three times.

The file ⟨scontents.pdf⟩ contains attached examples, which can be extracted from the PDF viewer or from the command line by running:

$ pdfdetach -saveall scontents.pdf

and then you can use the excellent arara tool to compile them.

The version numbers and dates are guaranteed to be correct in the repository is in the l3build configuration file build.lua.

The date format (pkgdate) is YYYY-MM-DD. If it is important to you that the files created have the correct version and date, you should run l3build tag before any other build-related task.

scontents utilizes the l3build system. You can run:

• l3build unpack to extract the code files into the directory build/unpacked/.
• l3build doc to build the documentation.
• l3build install put all files in your TEXMFHOME.
• l3build uninstall will remove them.
• l3build testpkg to test files.
• l3build examples to compile example files.

The package ⟨scontents⟩ may be modified and distributed under the terms and conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3c or greater.

├── README.md
├── build.lua
├── ctan.ann
└── sources
    ├── CTANREADME.md
    ├── scontents-code.tex
    ├── scontents.dtx
    ├── scontents.ins
    ├── scontents.sty
    ├── scontents.tex
    ├── t-scontents.mkiv
    └── test-pkg
        ├── test-format.context.tex
        ├── test-format.latex.tex
        ├── test-format.plain.tex
        ├── test-nospace.tex
        ├── test-pkg-current.tex
        ├── test-pkg-other.tex
        └── test-tagged-pdf.tex

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