<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">These are minor, but perhaps someone can explain them to me:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1. I have a large set of macros which I use in most of my work, and which I am therefore trying to set up as a style file, basicmacros.sty. One of the first things there is a set of newtheorem declarations (theorem, proposition, lemma, etc). My problem is that sometimes (when used in a book or large paper) I want all of them to be numbered using the section number, which I can do by making the first \newtheorem declaration (which is for theorem) end with [section], and all the others (because I want them all numbered in one sequence) have a "number as theorem" declaration---but other times (in a short paper) I don't want the section number to appear.</DIV><DIV>Is there a way for me to either set a parameter in the style file which I can use to set which option I use (maybe using the ifelsethen package), or for me to override the version in the style file.</DIV><DIV>I don't see how to do this with a \renewcommand declaration, but is there a way to accomplish this?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>2. I am puzzled by an error in my bibtex usage. Among the declarations at the beginning of my .bib file, I have</DIV><DIV> @string{enseign= "L{'}Enseignment Math{\'{e}}matique''}</DIV><DIV>because I don't want to have to retype this every time I need it in a reference. However, I get an "unbalanced braces" error when I do so. When I copy the same thing (without the enclosing double quotes) in the journal field of an article entry, I get no error. What is going on?<BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Zbigniew Nitecki</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Department of Mathematics</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Tufts University</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Medford, MA 02155</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">telephones:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Office<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN>(617)627-3843</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Dept.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN>(617)627-3234</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Dept. fax<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN>(617)627-3966</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>