new version breaks the ability to use rownum and colnum (or \therownum and \thecolnum)

[bsferrazza]

Something like this worked just fine before the 2025A update (albeit using \NewTableCommand). Accessing these variables rownum, colnum, etc within a NewTblrTableCommand no longer works. Changing those values to constant values works just fine. \thecolcount works, but not rownum, colnum, \therownum, \thecolnum.

\NewTblrTableCommand \tablegroup [1] [c] {
  \tblr_set_cell:nnnn {\arabic{rownum}} {\arabic{colnum}} {c=\thecolcount} 
 {#1,bg=blue,fg=white,font=\bfseries\sffamily}
}

[lvjr]

Please provide a minimal compilable example.

[bsferrazza]

I'm sorry I didn't include a minimum working example. Even my simple example above in the most basic table exhibits this issue. Here is a MWE. Thanks for getting this fixed promptly as the new version of tabularray breaks my documentation.

\DocumentMetadata{lang=en}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\NewTblrTableCommand \tablegroup {
  \tblr_set_cell:nnnn {\therownum} {\thecolnum} {c=\thecolcount} {c,bg=gray,fg=white}
}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\begin{document}
\begin{longtblr}[]{
  colspec={X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]},
  cells={c,gray7},
  hlines,vlines
}
  a & a & a & a & a & a & a & a & a & a & a & a \\
  \tablegroup Test \\
  \SetCell[r=2]{} \# & N & N & N & N & N & N & N & N & N & N & N \\
  & \SetCell[c=\thecolcount-1]{} Notes & & & & & & & & & &
\end{longtblr}
\end{document}

I should also mention that \arabic{rownum}, \therownum, \arabic{colnum}, \thecolnum aren't valid if using directly within a tblr. No need to include within NewTblrCommand.

[dbitouze]

Your example compiles like a charm with an up to date TeX Live.

I should also mention that \arabic{rownum}, \therownum, \arabic{colnum}, \thecolnum aren't valid if using directly within a tblr.

No issue with the following code:

\DocumentMetadata{lang=en}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\begin{document}
\begin{tblr}{hlines}
    (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum)
  & (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum)
  & (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum)
  & (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum) \\
    (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum)
  & (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum)
  & (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum)
  & (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum) \\
    (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum)
  & (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum)
  & (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum)
  & (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum) \\
    (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum)
  & (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum)
  & (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum)
  & (\arabic{rownum}\arabic{colnum}) (\therownum\thecolnum) \\
\end{tblr}
\end{document}

[bsferrazza]

OK, I said that because when I modified my MWE above to pass the \therownum to it, it still didn't work.

\DocumentMetadata{lang=en}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\NewTblrTableCommand \tablegroup [1] [] {
  \tblr_set_cell:nnnn {#1} {1} {c=\thecolcount} {c,bg=gray,fg=white}
}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\begin{document}
\begin{longtblr}[]{
  colspec={X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]X[-1,c]},
  cells={c,gray7},
  hlines,vlines
}
  a & a & a & a & a & a & a & a & a & a & a & a \\
  \tablegroup[\therownum] Test \\
  \SetCell[r=2]{} \# & N & N & N & N & N & N & N & N & N & N & N \\
  & \SetCell[c=\thecolcount-1]{} Notes & & & & & & & & & &
\end{longtblr}
\end{document}

Have you tried my MWE from above? How does it look on your end?

[bsferrazza]

Here's a bare minimum example

\DocumentMetadata{lang=en}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\NewTblrTableCommand \tablegroup {
  \tblr_set_cell:nnnn {\therownum} {\thecolnum} {c=\thecolcount} {}
}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\begin{document}
\begin{tblr}{
  hlines,vlines
}
  \therownum & \thecolnum & \arabic{rownum} & \arabic{colnum} \\
  \tablegroup Should take full width \\
  \therownum & \thecolnum & \arabic{rownum} & \arabic{colnum} \\
\end{tblr}
\end{document}

This is how it should look if you replace the \therownum and \thecolnum within the \NewTblrTableCommand with constants

\DocumentMetadata{lang=en}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\NewTblrTableCommand \tablegroup {
  \tblr_set_cell:nnnn {2} {1} {c=\thecolcount} {}
}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\begin{document}
\begin{tblr}{
  hlines,vlines
}
  \therownum & \thecolnum & \arabic{rownum} & \arabic{colnum} \\
  \tablegroup Should take full width \\
  \therownum & \thecolnum & \arabic{rownum} & \arabic{colnum} \\
\end{tblr}
\end{document}

[bsferrazza]

Hi. Any luck fixing this bug? Thank you.

[lvjr]

As a workaround, you can rollback to 2024A with \usepackage{tabularray}[=v2024] (In 2024A you need to use \NewTableCommand instead of \NewTblrTableCommand).

[lvjr]

You only need to use \tblr_set_cell:nn rather than \tblr_set_cell:nnnn if you wants to set current cell:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\NewTblrTableCommand \tablegroup {
  \tblr_set_cell:nn {c=\thecolcount} {}
}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\begin{document}
\begin{tblr}{
  hlines,vlines
}
  \therownum & \thecolnum & \arabic{rownum} & \arabic{colnum} \\
  \tablegroup Should take full width \\
  \therownum & \thecolnum & \arabic{rownum} & \arabic{colnum} \\
\end{tblr}
\end{document}

PS: please remove \DocumentMetadata{lang=en} from the code if you are preparing a minimal example.

[bsferrazza]

OK thanks. I do have places where I alter rows and columns that aren't the current one and use some arithmetic on \therownum and \thecolnum, which is likely why I was using \tblr_set_cell:nnnn in my example above. I copied and pasted from my larger LaTeX document to create the MWE. Do you see why those variables aren't accessible from within \NewTblrTableCommand?

You're right that 2024A doesn't have that issue, but unfortunately it has it's own issues with breaking tables that span multiple pages which are fixed in 2025A.

[lvjr]

You may try the following workaround:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\NewTblrTableCommand \tablegroup {
  \tblr_set_cell:nnnn {0+\therownum} {0+\thecolnum} {c=\thecolcount} {}
}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\begin{document}
\begin{tblr}{
  hlines,vlines
}
  \therownum & \thecolnum & \arabic{rownum} & \arabic{colnum} \\
  \tablegroup Should take full width \\
  \therownum & \thecolnum & \arabic{rownum} & \arabic{colnum} \\
\end{tblr}
\end{document}

[bsferrazza]

You may try the following workaround:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\NewTblrTableCommand \tablegroup {
\tblr_set_cell:nnnn {0+\therownum} {0+\thecolnum} {c=\thecolcount} {}
}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\begin{document}
\begin{tblr}{
hlines,vlines
}
\therownum & \thecolnum & \arabic{rownum} & \arabic{colnum} \
\tablegroup Should take full width \
\therownum & \thecolnum & \arabic{rownum} & \arabic{colnum} \
\end{tblr}
\end{document}

Yes thank you. This workaround is doing the trick.

[bsferrazza]

@lvjr Hi. While the workaround works for \tblr_set_cell and \tblr_set_row, I just noticed that it doesn't seem to work when using \tblr_set_vline:nnnn or \tblr_set_hline:nnnn, at least when you used as the third argument.

\tblr_set_vline:nnnn {2-Y} {1} {0+\value{rownum}} {white,1.0pt}

Maybe there's a better workaround, but I've found that using int_step_inline with a single step works

\int_step_inline:nnnn {\value{rownum}} {1} {\value{rownum}} {
  \tblr_set_vline:nnnn {2-Y} {1} {##1} {white,1.0pt}
}