Global variable Array












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I have control_array.tex and 10 templateA.tex, templateB.tex, ... TeX files. In control_array.tex:




  • ArrayName = [Name1,Name2,...Name10]

  • ArrayColor = [Color1,Color2,...Color10]


With Array in control_array.tex I can change all variable only one time in all templates: templateA.tex, templateB.tex, ...



Here's my MWE:



documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{article}
usepackage{xcolor}
begin{document}
%Call Name1, Nam10...Color 1, Color2...Color10
begin{enumerate}
item textcolor{color1}{Name1}
item textcolor{color2}{Name2}
item textcolor{color3}{Name3}
end{enumerate}
textcolor{color4}{Name9} \
textcolor{color5}{Name8}
end{document}


How can I do it with LaTeX? Any ideas are welcome.










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    I have control_array.tex and 10 templateA.tex, templateB.tex, ... TeX files. In control_array.tex:




    • ArrayName = [Name1,Name2,...Name10]

    • ArrayColor = [Color1,Color2,...Color10]


    With Array in control_array.tex I can change all variable only one time in all templates: templateA.tex, templateB.tex, ...



    Here's my MWE:



    documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{article}
    usepackage{xcolor}
    begin{document}
    %Call Name1, Nam10...Color 1, Color2...Color10
    begin{enumerate}
    item textcolor{color1}{Name1}
    item textcolor{color2}{Name2}
    item textcolor{color3}{Name3}
    end{enumerate}
    textcolor{color4}{Name9} \
    textcolor{color5}{Name8}
    end{document}


    How can I do it with LaTeX? Any ideas are welcome.










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      I have control_array.tex and 10 templateA.tex, templateB.tex, ... TeX files. In control_array.tex:




      • ArrayName = [Name1,Name2,...Name10]

      • ArrayColor = [Color1,Color2,...Color10]


      With Array in control_array.tex I can change all variable only one time in all templates: templateA.tex, templateB.tex, ...



      Here's my MWE:



      documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{article}
      usepackage{xcolor}
      begin{document}
      %Call Name1, Nam10...Color 1, Color2...Color10
      begin{enumerate}
      item textcolor{color1}{Name1}
      item textcolor{color2}{Name2}
      item textcolor{color3}{Name3}
      end{enumerate}
      textcolor{color4}{Name9} \
      textcolor{color5}{Name8}
      end{document}


      How can I do it with LaTeX? Any ideas are welcome.










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      I have control_array.tex and 10 templateA.tex, templateB.tex, ... TeX files. In control_array.tex:




      • ArrayName = [Name1,Name2,...Name10]

      • ArrayColor = [Color1,Color2,...Color10]


      With Array in control_array.tex I can change all variable only one time in all templates: templateA.tex, templateB.tex, ...



      Here's my MWE:



      documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{article}
      usepackage{xcolor}
      begin{document}
      %Call Name1, Nam10...Color 1, Color2...Color10
      begin{enumerate}
      item textcolor{color1}{Name1}
      item textcolor{color2}{Name2}
      item textcolor{color3}{Name3}
      end{enumerate}
      textcolor{color4}{Name9} \
      textcolor{color5}{Name8}
      end{document}


      How can I do it with LaTeX? Any ideas are welcome.







      color external-files






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          You could use pgffor for that.



          documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{article}
          usepackage{pgffor}
          usepackage{xcolor}
          begin{document}
          defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}}
          defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}}
          begin{enumerate}
          foreach X in {0,...,4}
          {pgfmathsetmacro{myname}{ArrayNames[X]}
          pgfmathsetmacro{mycolor}{ArrayColors[X]}
          item textcolor{mycolor}{myname}}
          end{enumerate}
          end{document}


          enter image description here



          Or with an external file (which I create here for the convenience of others in the MWE, but you may drop the filecontents stuff as long you have a data file).



          documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{article}
          usepackage{filecontents}
          begin{filecontents*}{myarrays.tex}
          defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}}
          defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}}
          end{filecontents*}
          usepackage{pgffor}
          usepackage{xcolor}
          begin{document}
          input{myarrays.tex}
          begin{enumerate}
          foreach X in ArrayNames
          {foreach Y [count=Z starting from 0]in X
          {pgfmathsetmacro{mycolor}{ArrayColors[Z]}
          pgfmathsetmacro{myname}{ArrayNames[Z]}
          item textcolor{mycolor}{myname}}}
          end{enumerate}
          end{document}





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          • thank for your quick reply. I know that pgffor in same file.tex can do it. Can you solution/idea set variable array in control file, not in template file? defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}} defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}} Thanks

            – tisaigon
            1 hour ago











          • and some situation, please not use "For each", example: textcolor{color4}{Name9} \ textcolor{color5}{Name8}. thanks

            – tisaigon
            1 hour ago













          • @tisaigon I do not understand your last requests. Could you please try to be more specific? Note, however, that I added a proposal that loads an external file.

            – marmot
            1 hour ago



















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          Trivial with listofitems.



          documentclass{article}
          usepackage{listofitems,xcolor}
          newcommandArrayNames{Name1,Name2,N3,N4,N5,N6,N7,N8,N9,Name10}
          newcommandArrayColors{red,blue,cyan,cyan!50!red,red!50,
          purple,green,yellow,blue!50,magenta}
          readlist*arrayname{ArrayNames}
          readlist*arraycolor{ArrayColors}
          begin{document}
          begin{enumerate}
          foreachitemxinarrayname{item textcolor{arraycolor[xcnt]}{x}}
          end{enumerate}

          textcolor{arraycolor[4]}{arrayname[9]}

          textcolor{arraycolor[5]}{arrayname[8]}
          end{document}


          enter image description here






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            In a very simplistic way you can place a number of color definitions using (say) colorlet{colorX}{<colour>} inside color_array.tex and load them within the document preamble:



            enter image description here



            documentclass{article}

            % Just for this example, create control_array.tex that contains all the colour definitions
            usepackage{filecontents}
            begin{filecontents*}{control_array.tex}
            usepackage{xcolor}
            colorlet{color1}{blue}
            colorlet{color2}{green}
            colorlet{color3}{red!30!yellow}
            colorlet{color4}{rgb:black,1;red,2;orange,3}
            colorlet{color5}{black!50}
            end{filecontents*}

            input{control_array}% Input colour definitions

            begin{document}

            begin{enumerate}
            item textcolor{color1}{Name1}
            item textcolor{color2}{Name2}
            item textcolor{color3}{Name3}
            end{enumerate}

            textcolor{color4}{Name9}

            textcolor{color5}{Name8}

            end{document}


            Note that input{color_array} is called within the preamble since color_array.tex includes a call to load xcolor which can only be called within the preamble.






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              You could use pgffor for that.



              documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{article}
              usepackage{pgffor}
              usepackage{xcolor}
              begin{document}
              defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}}
              defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}}
              begin{enumerate}
              foreach X in {0,...,4}
              {pgfmathsetmacro{myname}{ArrayNames[X]}
              pgfmathsetmacro{mycolor}{ArrayColors[X]}
              item textcolor{mycolor}{myname}}
              end{enumerate}
              end{document}


              enter image description here



              Or with an external file (which I create here for the convenience of others in the MWE, but you may drop the filecontents stuff as long you have a data file).



              documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{article}
              usepackage{filecontents}
              begin{filecontents*}{myarrays.tex}
              defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}}
              defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}}
              end{filecontents*}
              usepackage{pgffor}
              usepackage{xcolor}
              begin{document}
              input{myarrays.tex}
              begin{enumerate}
              foreach X in ArrayNames
              {foreach Y [count=Z starting from 0]in X
              {pgfmathsetmacro{mycolor}{ArrayColors[Z]}
              pgfmathsetmacro{myname}{ArrayNames[Z]}
              item textcolor{mycolor}{myname}}}
              end{enumerate}
              end{document}





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              • thank for your quick reply. I know that pgffor in same file.tex can do it. Can you solution/idea set variable array in control file, not in template file? defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}} defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}} Thanks

                – tisaigon
                1 hour ago











              • and some situation, please not use "For each", example: textcolor{color4}{Name9} \ textcolor{color5}{Name8}. thanks

                – tisaigon
                1 hour ago













              • @tisaigon I do not understand your last requests. Could you please try to be more specific? Note, however, that I added a proposal that loads an external file.

                – marmot
                1 hour ago
















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              You could use pgffor for that.



              documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{article}
              usepackage{pgffor}
              usepackage{xcolor}
              begin{document}
              defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}}
              defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}}
              begin{enumerate}
              foreach X in {0,...,4}
              {pgfmathsetmacro{myname}{ArrayNames[X]}
              pgfmathsetmacro{mycolor}{ArrayColors[X]}
              item textcolor{mycolor}{myname}}
              end{enumerate}
              end{document}


              enter image description here



              Or with an external file (which I create here for the convenience of others in the MWE, but you may drop the filecontents stuff as long you have a data file).



              documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{article}
              usepackage{filecontents}
              begin{filecontents*}{myarrays.tex}
              defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}}
              defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}}
              end{filecontents*}
              usepackage{pgffor}
              usepackage{xcolor}
              begin{document}
              input{myarrays.tex}
              begin{enumerate}
              foreach X in ArrayNames
              {foreach Y [count=Z starting from 0]in X
              {pgfmathsetmacro{mycolor}{ArrayColors[Z]}
              pgfmathsetmacro{myname}{ArrayNames[Z]}
              item textcolor{mycolor}{myname}}}
              end{enumerate}
              end{document}





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              • thank for your quick reply. I know that pgffor in same file.tex can do it. Can you solution/idea set variable array in control file, not in template file? defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}} defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}} Thanks

                – tisaigon
                1 hour ago











              • and some situation, please not use "For each", example: textcolor{color4}{Name9} \ textcolor{color5}{Name8}. thanks

                – tisaigon
                1 hour ago













              • @tisaigon I do not understand your last requests. Could you please try to be more specific? Note, however, that I added a proposal that loads an external file.

                – marmot
                1 hour ago














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              You could use pgffor for that.



              documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{article}
              usepackage{pgffor}
              usepackage{xcolor}
              begin{document}
              defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}}
              defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}}
              begin{enumerate}
              foreach X in {0,...,4}
              {pgfmathsetmacro{myname}{ArrayNames[X]}
              pgfmathsetmacro{mycolor}{ArrayColors[X]}
              item textcolor{mycolor}{myname}}
              end{enumerate}
              end{document}


              enter image description here



              Or with an external file (which I create here for the convenience of others in the MWE, but you may drop the filecontents stuff as long you have a data file).



              documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{article}
              usepackage{filecontents}
              begin{filecontents*}{myarrays.tex}
              defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}}
              defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}}
              end{filecontents*}
              usepackage{pgffor}
              usepackage{xcolor}
              begin{document}
              input{myarrays.tex}
              begin{enumerate}
              foreach X in ArrayNames
              {foreach Y [count=Z starting from 0]in X
              {pgfmathsetmacro{mycolor}{ArrayColors[Z]}
              pgfmathsetmacro{myname}{ArrayNames[Z]}
              item textcolor{mycolor}{myname}}}
              end{enumerate}
              end{document}





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              You could use pgffor for that.



              documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{article}
              usepackage{pgffor}
              usepackage{xcolor}
              begin{document}
              defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}}
              defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}}
              begin{enumerate}
              foreach X in {0,...,4}
              {pgfmathsetmacro{myname}{ArrayNames[X]}
              pgfmathsetmacro{mycolor}{ArrayColors[X]}
              item textcolor{mycolor}{myname}}
              end{enumerate}
              end{document}


              enter image description here



              Or with an external file (which I create here for the convenience of others in the MWE, but you may drop the filecontents stuff as long you have a data file).



              documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{article}
              usepackage{filecontents}
              begin{filecontents*}{myarrays.tex}
              defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}}
              defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}}
              end{filecontents*}
              usepackage{pgffor}
              usepackage{xcolor}
              begin{document}
              input{myarrays.tex}
              begin{enumerate}
              foreach X in ArrayNames
              {foreach Y [count=Z starting from 0]in X
              {pgfmathsetmacro{mycolor}{ArrayColors[Z]}
              pgfmathsetmacro{myname}{ArrayNames[Z]}
              item textcolor{mycolor}{myname}}}
              end{enumerate}
              end{document}






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              • thank for your quick reply. I know that pgffor in same file.tex can do it. Can you solution/idea set variable array in control file, not in template file? defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}} defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}} Thanks

                – tisaigon
                1 hour ago











              • and some situation, please not use "For each", example: textcolor{color4}{Name9} \ textcolor{color5}{Name8}. thanks

                – tisaigon
                1 hour ago













              • @tisaigon I do not understand your last requests. Could you please try to be more specific? Note, however, that I added a proposal that loads an external file.

                – marmot
                1 hour ago



















              • thank for your quick reply. I know that pgffor in same file.tex can do it. Can you solution/idea set variable array in control file, not in template file? defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}} defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}} Thanks

                – tisaigon
                1 hour ago











              • and some situation, please not use "For each", example: textcolor{color4}{Name9} \ textcolor{color5}{Name8}. thanks

                – tisaigon
                1 hour ago













              • @tisaigon I do not understand your last requests. Could you please try to be more specific? Note, however, that I added a proposal that loads an external file.

                – marmot
                1 hour ago

















              thank for your quick reply. I know that pgffor in same file.tex can do it. Can you solution/idea set variable array in control file, not in template file? defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}} defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}} Thanks

              – tisaigon
              1 hour ago





              thank for your quick reply. I know that pgffor in same file.tex can do it. Can you solution/idea set variable array in control file, not in template file? defArrayNames{{"koala","duck","marmot","penguin","bear"}} defArrayColors{{"gray","yellow","blue","red","brown"}} Thanks

              – tisaigon
              1 hour ago













              and some situation, please not use "For each", example: textcolor{color4}{Name9} \ textcolor{color5}{Name8}. thanks

              – tisaigon
              1 hour ago







              and some situation, please not use "For each", example: textcolor{color4}{Name9} \ textcolor{color5}{Name8}. thanks

              – tisaigon
              1 hour ago















              @tisaigon I do not understand your last requests. Could you please try to be more specific? Note, however, that I added a proposal that loads an external file.

              – marmot
              1 hour ago





              @tisaigon I do not understand your last requests. Could you please try to be more specific? Note, however, that I added a proposal that loads an external file.

              – marmot
              1 hour ago











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              Trivial with listofitems.



              documentclass{article}
              usepackage{listofitems,xcolor}
              newcommandArrayNames{Name1,Name2,N3,N4,N5,N6,N7,N8,N9,Name10}
              newcommandArrayColors{red,blue,cyan,cyan!50!red,red!50,
              purple,green,yellow,blue!50,magenta}
              readlist*arrayname{ArrayNames}
              readlist*arraycolor{ArrayColors}
              begin{document}
              begin{enumerate}
              foreachitemxinarrayname{item textcolor{arraycolor[xcnt]}{x}}
              end{enumerate}

              textcolor{arraycolor[4]}{arrayname[9]}

              textcolor{arraycolor[5]}{arrayname[8]}
              end{document}


              enter image description here






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                Trivial with listofitems.



                documentclass{article}
                usepackage{listofitems,xcolor}
                newcommandArrayNames{Name1,Name2,N3,N4,N5,N6,N7,N8,N9,Name10}
                newcommandArrayColors{red,blue,cyan,cyan!50!red,red!50,
                purple,green,yellow,blue!50,magenta}
                readlist*arrayname{ArrayNames}
                readlist*arraycolor{ArrayColors}
                begin{document}
                begin{enumerate}
                foreachitemxinarrayname{item textcolor{arraycolor[xcnt]}{x}}
                end{enumerate}

                textcolor{arraycolor[4]}{arrayname[9]}

                textcolor{arraycolor[5]}{arrayname[8]}
                end{document}


                enter image description here






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                  Trivial with listofitems.



                  documentclass{article}
                  usepackage{listofitems,xcolor}
                  newcommandArrayNames{Name1,Name2,N3,N4,N5,N6,N7,N8,N9,Name10}
                  newcommandArrayColors{red,blue,cyan,cyan!50!red,red!50,
                  purple,green,yellow,blue!50,magenta}
                  readlist*arrayname{ArrayNames}
                  readlist*arraycolor{ArrayColors}
                  begin{document}
                  begin{enumerate}
                  foreachitemxinarrayname{item textcolor{arraycolor[xcnt]}{x}}
                  end{enumerate}

                  textcolor{arraycolor[4]}{arrayname[9]}

                  textcolor{arraycolor[5]}{arrayname[8]}
                  end{document}


                  enter image description here






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                  Trivial with listofitems.



                  documentclass{article}
                  usepackage{listofitems,xcolor}
                  newcommandArrayNames{Name1,Name2,N3,N4,N5,N6,N7,N8,N9,Name10}
                  newcommandArrayColors{red,blue,cyan,cyan!50!red,red!50,
                  purple,green,yellow,blue!50,magenta}
                  readlist*arrayname{ArrayNames}
                  readlist*arraycolor{ArrayColors}
                  begin{document}
                  begin{enumerate}
                  foreachitemxinarrayname{item textcolor{arraycolor[xcnt]}{x}}
                  end{enumerate}

                  textcolor{arraycolor[4]}{arrayname[9]}

                  textcolor{arraycolor[5]}{arrayname[8]}
                  end{document}


                  enter image description here







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                      In a very simplistic way you can place a number of color definitions using (say) colorlet{colorX}{<colour>} inside color_array.tex and load them within the document preamble:



                      enter image description here



                      documentclass{article}

                      % Just for this example, create control_array.tex that contains all the colour definitions
                      usepackage{filecontents}
                      begin{filecontents*}{control_array.tex}
                      usepackage{xcolor}
                      colorlet{color1}{blue}
                      colorlet{color2}{green}
                      colorlet{color3}{red!30!yellow}
                      colorlet{color4}{rgb:black,1;red,2;orange,3}
                      colorlet{color5}{black!50}
                      end{filecontents*}

                      input{control_array}% Input colour definitions

                      begin{document}

                      begin{enumerate}
                      item textcolor{color1}{Name1}
                      item textcolor{color2}{Name2}
                      item textcolor{color3}{Name3}
                      end{enumerate}

                      textcolor{color4}{Name9}

                      textcolor{color5}{Name8}

                      end{document}


                      Note that input{color_array} is called within the preamble since color_array.tex includes a call to load xcolor which can only be called within the preamble.






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                        In a very simplistic way you can place a number of color definitions using (say) colorlet{colorX}{<colour>} inside color_array.tex and load them within the document preamble:



                        enter image description here



                        documentclass{article}

                        % Just for this example, create control_array.tex that contains all the colour definitions
                        usepackage{filecontents}
                        begin{filecontents*}{control_array.tex}
                        usepackage{xcolor}
                        colorlet{color1}{blue}
                        colorlet{color2}{green}
                        colorlet{color3}{red!30!yellow}
                        colorlet{color4}{rgb:black,1;red,2;orange,3}
                        colorlet{color5}{black!50}
                        end{filecontents*}

                        input{control_array}% Input colour definitions

                        begin{document}

                        begin{enumerate}
                        item textcolor{color1}{Name1}
                        item textcolor{color2}{Name2}
                        item textcolor{color3}{Name3}
                        end{enumerate}

                        textcolor{color4}{Name9}

                        textcolor{color5}{Name8}

                        end{document}


                        Note that input{color_array} is called within the preamble since color_array.tex includes a call to load xcolor which can only be called within the preamble.






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                          In a very simplistic way you can place a number of color definitions using (say) colorlet{colorX}{<colour>} inside color_array.tex and load them within the document preamble:



                          enter image description here



                          documentclass{article}

                          % Just for this example, create control_array.tex that contains all the colour definitions
                          usepackage{filecontents}
                          begin{filecontents*}{control_array.tex}
                          usepackage{xcolor}
                          colorlet{color1}{blue}
                          colorlet{color2}{green}
                          colorlet{color3}{red!30!yellow}
                          colorlet{color4}{rgb:black,1;red,2;orange,3}
                          colorlet{color5}{black!50}
                          end{filecontents*}

                          input{control_array}% Input colour definitions

                          begin{document}

                          begin{enumerate}
                          item textcolor{color1}{Name1}
                          item textcolor{color2}{Name2}
                          item textcolor{color3}{Name3}
                          end{enumerate}

                          textcolor{color4}{Name9}

                          textcolor{color5}{Name8}

                          end{document}


                          Note that input{color_array} is called within the preamble since color_array.tex includes a call to load xcolor which can only be called within the preamble.






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                          In a very simplistic way you can place a number of color definitions using (say) colorlet{colorX}{<colour>} inside color_array.tex and load them within the document preamble:



                          enter image description here



                          documentclass{article}

                          % Just for this example, create control_array.tex that contains all the colour definitions
                          usepackage{filecontents}
                          begin{filecontents*}{control_array.tex}
                          usepackage{xcolor}
                          colorlet{color1}{blue}
                          colorlet{color2}{green}
                          colorlet{color3}{red!30!yellow}
                          colorlet{color4}{rgb:black,1;red,2;orange,3}
                          colorlet{color5}{black!50}
                          end{filecontents*}

                          input{control_array}% Input colour definitions

                          begin{document}

                          begin{enumerate}
                          item textcolor{color1}{Name1}
                          item textcolor{color2}{Name2}
                          item textcolor{color3}{Name3}
                          end{enumerate}

                          textcolor{color4}{Name9}

                          textcolor{color5}{Name8}

                          end{document}


                          Note that input{color_array} is called within the preamble since color_array.tex includes a call to load xcolor which can only be called within the preamble.







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