Re: [OT] no space after defined \newcommands in LaTeX

["Roberto Sanchez" <sanchezr@hotmail.com>]

> this has been pissing me off recently.  if i define a new command
>
> \newcommand{\TM}{Turing machine}
>
> and then say in my document
>
> ... the \TM defined by blah blah ...
>
> i will get the output ``the Turing machinedefined by blah blah.''
>
> so i have to say
>
> ... the \TM ~defined by ...
>
> I can't just define it to be
>
> {Turing machine~}
>
> because i want to be able to put punctuation directly after it.
>
> How do people get around this?  or do you just deal?
Leave your definition as is and use "\TM{} some other text."  That should 
solve your problem.

HTH,

-Roberto Sanchez


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