generalUtil.sty

\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{generalUtil}[2018 v1.0 John Berlin general utility macros]

\RequirePackage{xcolor}
\RequirePackage{xparse}

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% Counter for the address edit footnotes
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\newcounter{editFtnt}

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% Macro that allows text that would not normally be allowed to wrap lines to be line-wraped/broken
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\NewDocumentCommand{\justifyText}{}{%
    \fontdimen2\font=0.4em% interword space
    \fontdimen3\font=0.2em% interword stretch
    \fontdimen4\font=0.1em% interword shrink
    \fontdimen7\font=0.1em% extra space
    \hyphenchar\font=`\-% allowing hyphenation
}

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% Macro that wraps \texttt ensuring the text will be allowed to line-wraped/broken 
% Required Arguments 1: anything normally passed as an argument to \texttt
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\NewDocumentCommand{\justifyTTT}{m}{\texttt{\justifyText #1}}


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% Macro to wraps \textbf to make it blue
% Required Arguments 1: text to be colored blue
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\NewDocumentCommand{\boldblue}{m}{\textcolor{blue}{\textbf{#1}}}

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% Macro to wraps \textbf to make it brown
% Required Arguments 1: text to be colored brown
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\NewDocumentCommand{\boldbrown}{m}{\textcolor{brown}{\textbf{#1}}}

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% Macro to wraps \textbf to make it red
% Required Arguments 1: text to be colored red
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\NewDocumentCommand{\boldred}{m}{\textcolor{red}{\textbf{#1}}}

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% Macro for denoting edits to be applied by changing the footnote marker 
% to \dagger and makes the marker and text bold red.
% Theses footnotes are numbered separately from your normal footnotes
% Required Arguments 1: text to be the body of the edit footnote
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\NewDocumentCommand{\addressEditFTNT}{m}{%
    \stepcounter{editFtnt}%
    {\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\boldred{\arabic{editFtnt}$\dagger$}}%
        \boldred{\footnote{\boldred{#1}}}}%
}

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% Macro to tighten up the spacing of listing environments
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\NewDocumentCommand{\tightlist}{}{\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}}