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




on Mon, 31 Mar 2003 06:38:09PM -0500, Alan Shutko insinuated:
> Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> writes:
> 
> > this has been pissing me off recently.  if i define a new command 
> >
> > \newcommand{\TM}{Turing machine}
> 
> \usepackage{xspace}
> \newcommand{\TM}{Turing machine\xspace}

cool.

> Although I find a lot of people prefer to write 
> 
>  ... the \TM\ defined by blah blah ...
> 
> or 
> 
>  ... the \TM{} defined by blah blah ...
> 
> since they have to do that for most commands they didn't write, and
> they want all their commands to be consistent.

how do you mean, "they have to do that for most commands they didn't
write"?

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