The xpeek package provides tools
to help define commands that,
like the familiar \xspace
(from xspace)
and the LaTeX command \textit,
“peek” ahead at what follows them in the command stream,
compare this token against a stored token-list,
and choose appropriate behavior.
The code is adapted from an answer posted to TeX.SX by Enrico “egreg” Gregorio at http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/59542/2966. Enrico, Joseph Wright, Bruno Le Floch, & Clemens Niederberger helped iron out the implementation; Bruno also wrote the initial version of the documentation and the near-final version of much of the code. See http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/63568/2966, http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/63971/2966, and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.latex.latex3/2894.
The source-code repository and bug-tracker for this package may be found at https://github.com/jcsalomon/xpeek.
The most recently-released version of this package
will have been uploaded to CTAN at http://ctan.org/pkg/xpeek.
If you’re running an up-to-date version of TeX Live or MiKTeX,
you can install xpeek via the package manager.
For other systems, a TDS-compliant package may be downloaded at http://mirrors.ctan.org/install/macros/latex/contrib/xpeek.tds.zip or from https://github.com/jcsalomon/xpeek/downloads.
This package is developed as a standalone .dtx file,
packaged for the LaTeX3 project’s l3docstrip.
To produce the style file, run this command:
pdflatex xpeek.dtx
Put the generated file xpeek.sty somewhere where TeX will find it.
This will also produce a version of the PDF documentation, but with undefined references and without an index or change-log. To get a more useful version of the documentation, run these commands next:
pdflatex xpeek.dtx
makeindex -s l3doc.ist -o xpeek.ind xpeek.idx
makeindex -s gglo.ist -o xpeek.gls xpeek.glo
pdflatex xpeek.dtx
pdflatex xpeek.dtx
These next commands are not strictly necessary,
since Acrobat Reader can generate & display thumbnails on-the-fly.
But since l3doc includes hypdoc which includes thumbpdf,
I may as well generate the pre-rendered thumbnails:
thumbpdf xpeek.pdf
pdflatex xpeek.dtx
Notice that the command for generating the index is different
from the one usually used for ltxdoc-documented packages;
that’s because I’m using the new (and experimental) package l3doc.
Copyright © 2012 by Joel C. Salomon joelcsalomon@gmail.com.
This work consists of the file xpeek.dtx,
and the derived files xpeek.ins,
xpeek.pdf, &
xpeek.sty.
It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the
LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), either version 1.3c of this
license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version
of this license is at http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt.
This work is “maintained” (per LPPL maintenance status) by Joel C. Salomon joelcsalomon@gmail.com.