On: I hate LaTeX, I love LaTeX

[gus_massa]

I'm not sure if it's necessary to use auxiliary files.

I made something implementing fake vectors using \csname . I think that a similar approach can be used for this problem, but I prefer to never see my old code again. IWIMM

  \newcommand{\defwithindex}[3]{%
    \expandafter\def\csname #1@#2\endcsname{#3}%
  }

  \newcommand{\getwithindex}[2]{%
    \csname #1@#2\endcsname%
  }

(You probably need the two dimensional version.)

[miguelmurca → gus_massa]

Hi! Author here. This is a cool idea for a vector implementation, but you still need to work around the fact that the command definition can come after the \get

[zauguin → miguelmurca]

Since your code doesn't write the authors to the file it already requires that the authors are given before `\maketitle`, so then it's also reasonable to require affiliations there. Then you get something like https://gist.github.com/zauguin/19bf1bc9128a8abaedfe3081717b... which doesn't need a file.

[miguelmurca → zauguin]

Hello, I thought about it a little and indeed you are both right! For the sake of completeness I've updated beamleeto to use this mechanism instead :) thank you for your help!

[gus_massa → miguelmurca]

Perhaps you can use the main aux file, as other packages do. I think I never did that, so I'm not sure about how difficult it is. Or perhaps I used the aux file and I forgot about that. [ I should write an article titled "I hate LaTeX. I hate MSWord." :) . ]