LaTeXML...tructor(3)

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🦋 LaTeXML::Core::Definition::Constructor 🦋

okay so this is a page from User Contributed Perl Documentation (the manual name, folding it in right here so you're not confused later 💖), all about LaTeXML::Core::Definition::Constructor. yes the header is foreshortened, no we're not gonna worry about it.

✨ NAME ✨

"LaTeXML::Core::Definition::Constructor" — Control sequence definitions. that's the whole vibe, bestie.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So this class represents control sequences that contribute arbitrary XML fragments to the document tree. like, they just show up and drop XML wherever. main character energy fr fr.

During digestion, a "LaTeXML::Core::Definition::Constuctor" (yes that's how it's spelled in the book, no I will not be fixing it 💀) records the arguments used in the invocation to produce a LaTeXML::Core::Whatsit. The resulting LaTeXML::Core::Whatsit (usually) generates an XML document fragment when absorbed by an instance of LaTeXML::Core::Document. lowkey iconic.

Additionally, a "LaTeXML::Core::Definition::Constructor" may have beforeDigest and afterDigest daemons defined, which are executed for side effect, or for adding additional boxes to the output. side quests, basically 🫶

It extends LaTeXML::Core::Definition.

More documentation needed, but see LaTeXML::Package for the main user access to these. that's the literal note in here — not me being shady, they said it themselves 😭

🎀 More about Constructors 🎀

A constructor has as it's "replacement" a subroutine or a string pattern representing the XML fragment it should generate. cute!

In the case of a string pattern, the pattern is compiled into a subroutine on first usage by the internal class "LaTeXML::Core::Definition::ConstructorCompiler". lazy but make it efficient 💅

Like primitives, constructors may have "beforeDigest" and "afterDigest".

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Bruce Miller <bruce.miller@nist.gov> — king behavior, honestly.

Public domain software, produced as part of work done by the United States Government & not subject to copyright in the US. periodt. no cap, it's literally public domain 🦋

so yeah, that's the whole page 💜 — and this lil tutorial was brought to you by perl v5.42.3, dated 2024-02-26, with the LaTeXML...tructor(3) header/footer flavor living rent free in the background. bye bestie, go read LaTeXML::Package next 💖✨🍓

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