Re: [MiKTeX] Two problems

[Christopher H. <cch...@gm...>]

On 3/2/07, Lukas Tanner <nju...@ya...> wrote:
>
> --- Christopher Heckman <cch...@gm...> schrieb:
>
> > On 3/1/07, Bi-Info (http://members.home.nl/bi-info)
> > <bi...@ho...> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've got two problems with LaTeX.
> > >
> > > The first one is: I want to quote text in another part of the text. This
> > > has to be quoted literally.
> > >
> > > So I write \sometrick{this}
> > >
> > > and I reference it should read
> > >
> > > this
> >
> > Before you use it the first time, use:
> >
> > \def\texttorepeat{this}
> >
> > Then use the \texttorepeat macro in both places.
> >
> >      --- Christopher Heckman
> >
> >
>
> Hello
> I think it is not recommendet to use \def in LaTeX,
> since there is no control, if you overwrite some
> internal commands.

And what's wrong with overwriting internal commands? 8-)

> I'd rather use \newcommand{\texttoreapeat}{this}.

I guess you did ask for how to do it in LaTeX. (Needing to use "\newcommand"
instead of "\def" is one reason why I don't use LaTeX.)

> But make sure to
> use brackets when applying the macro e.g.
> texttorepeat{} otherwise the following space gets
> ignored.

You could also put a backslash and a space after it, after the macro,
which saves you one keystroke:

"...I said earlier \texttoreapeat\ and want to explain what I meant..."

     --- Christopher Heckman