On 8/27/06, Pepe Barbe wrote:
On 8/25/06, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
\define\mymacro#1 is equivalent to
\def\mymacro#1 but also checks if mymacro has already been defined.
Thanks for the info. I am using \define for something simple, define some keywords with special format that I will be repeating a lot. Something like:
\define\mybi{\bf\sl BoldItalic}
\define\mybi{{\bs BoldItalic}} You need two braces, otherwise everything else will be bold italic as well.
Works fin except that if I use in a sentence like: This is \mybi word.
Any space after a command is ignored (unless you start a new paragraph). This is \mybi{} word. This is \mybi\ word. Don Knuth has written an excellent book about TeX (TeXBOOK) that is really worth reading. Try to find it in a library or to compile it from the source: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/texbook.html Mojca