[texhax] enviroment

John Culleton john at wexfordpress.com
Mon Feb 9 19:13:38 CET 2009


On Sunday 08 February 2009 07:38:37 wawan wrote:
> Hi all
> I need help how to build sty in latex ( environment ) that can 
replace
> squences of chars with my symbols. For example if there input 
chars "SU"
> than replace with XY ( my symbols from metafont).
> 
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This is best done in the text editor. For Vim the command would be

:%s/XU/(code for your metafont symbols)/g

Or you can simply create a macro thus:
\def\XU{code for your metafont symbol}

The above is primitive TeX code but works for LaTeX also. 

John Culleton


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