A couple of days ago, I found showexpl
, it is wonderful and works very well. But there is one thing missing that it doesn't let me do and it is to only show the output/result of some commands. For little commands, there are no problems, a minipage
inside an fbox
works well, but for displaying titles and sections without affecting the number count in the document I have no idea how to do (except by embedded an image of the rendered document, which isn't that great of an idea).
For an example of what I am saying, I saw this a while ago while reading this tutorial (on page 4 there is an example of a document): https://dataninja.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/texpert2.pdf
Best Answer
You will need to manually rewind the counters after they have been executed, as well as write quite a few macros to save state and restore state. I use a similar package called
tcolorbox
, here is a MWE illustrating the technique for keeping section numbers consistent.I am not aware of any package that can be used to run full minimal examples though. One way is to save them on disc using a
verbatimwrite
, execute them via enabling write18 and then import the pdf. Perhaps FMi can describe what they used when they wrote the LaTeX Companion.Quick implementation hack to display MWE.