The docext Package

The docext package is an extension for documenting LaTeX source files.

It provides

• An elegant way to typeset the key-value list.
• The codedemo enviornment for typesetting the code within a verbatim and a demo environment at the same time.

It fixes the drawbacks of the doc package under

• The engines: pTeX and upTeX.
• The classes: book and report (or any class uses the titlepage environment in \maketitle)

In the l3doc class, it resets the counter of section at the beginning of the documentation environment to support the bilingual manuals.

This package is based on the doc package and works smoothly under the l3doc, ltxdoc, and article classes.

Overview

To load this template, write the line

\usepackage[<options>]{docext}

See docext.pdf for more. Happy TeXing!

Issues

The issue tracker for docext is currently located on GitHub.

Build status

This project uses GitHub Actions as a hosted continuous integration service. For each commit, the build status is tested using the current release of TeX Live.

Current build status:

Copyright and License

Copyright (C) 2026 by Mingyu Xia <myhsia@outlook.com>

This work 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 in

http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2008 or later.

This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained.

The Current Maintainer of this work is Mingyu Xia.