Mdthbs

I have some macros I use a lot, mostly just for my digital note keeping. Because of the nature of these macros, I could use a specific versions of these. For example I mention some file names throughout a document such as workdocument which assigns them a specific url, and I would like to have a list of these files at the end of the document which I can just use to copy paste into some unix terminal tool. I could parse the file with a programming language to get these, but with multiple includes it isn't something I prefer.

The contents of these commands aren't references as one would semantically understand it, so I would like to avoid using bibtex.

If this can be accomplished with a feature that only exists in any of lualatex/xelatex/pdflatex, that is fine by me.

My tex file, in the simplest sense, looks like the following:

documentclass[english]{scrartcl}



newcommand*thingofnote[1]{#1} % Somehow add the input to an 'array' to be printed at the end as well?

begin{document}



section{Section A}



A thing of note is thingofnote{x}, while another thing of note is thingofnote{y}.



section{Section B}



One must not forget about thingofnote{z}.



section{All The Things}



% Here, create a list of all the things of note previously included in the document.

% Even this output would be acceptable, as long as it is not done manually:

% xyz



end{document}

In the real document there are more commands and multiple includes.

This produces,

I would like to produce a version of,

Thanks in advance.

For Dr. Seuss lovers, this approach will actually create macros thing1 and thing2! (in csname form, of course)

documentclass[english]{scrartcl}

usepackage{pgffor}

newcounter{things}

newcommand*thingofnote[1]{#1%

  stepcounter{things}expandaftergdefcsname thingthethingsendcsname{#1}}

newcommandlistthings{%

  begin{enumerate}

  foreachz in{1,...,thethings}{item csname thingzendcsname}

  end{enumerate}

}

begin{document}



section{Section A}



A thing of note is thingofnote{x}, while another thing of note is thingofnote{y}.



section{Section B}



One must not forget about thingofnote{z}.



section{All The Things}



listthings



end{document}

The approach can be generalized to multi-paragraph things of note as follows:

documentclass[english]{scrartcl}

usepackage{pgffor}

newcounter{things}

newcommandthingofnote[1]{#1%

  stepcounter{things}expandaftergdefcsname thingthethingsendcsname{#1}}

newcommandlistthings{%

  begin{enumerate}

  foreachz in{1,...,thethings}{item csname thingzendcsname}

  end{enumerate}

}

begin{document}



section{Section A}



A thing of note is thingofnote{x



and new paragraph of more x}, while another thing of note is thingofnote{y}.



section{Section B}



One must not forget about thingofnote{z}.



section{All The Things}



listthings



end{document}

Using etoolbox's docsvlist:

documentclass[english]{scrartcl}

usepackage{etoolbox}



newcommandmylistofstuff{}

newcommand*thingofnote[1]{%

  gapptomylistofstuff{,{#1}}% Add to list

  #1}% write on paper

begin{document}



section{Section A}



A thing of note is thingofnote{x}, while another thing of note is thingofnote{y}.



section{Section B}



One must not forget about thingofnote{z}.



section{All The Things}



begin{enumerate}

  defdo#1{item #1}

  expandafterdocsvlistexpandafter{mylistofstuff}

end{enumerate}



end{document}