I found a sentence:
I meant '\keys_set:nn'. By 'nothing', I mean 'nothing the latex people would approve'.
I'm not very clear the meaning of "by nothing", please help explain.
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2What is the wider context?KillingTime– KillingTime2025-11-30 07:00:39 +00:00Commented yesterday
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To get help, you need to show us where the word 'nothing' was used before, that it needs explaining further. By where, I mean quote the previous sentence that included the word.Yosef Baskin– Yosef Baskin2025-11-30 21:38:30 +00:00Commented 14 hours ago
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- By 'nothing', I mean 'nothing the latex people would approve'.
by there means: when I use the word nothing.
This is referring back to a previous sentence where they used the word "nothing". It's clarifying what they meant when they used that word -- it meant "nothing the latex people would approve".
You can use this phrase structure any time you use a word in an ideosyncratic, unusual, or sarcastic way. You say "by X I mean Y", where X is the word and Y is the explanation.
