[texhax] Defining a command which runs differently based ion input argument

Uwe Lueck uwe.lueck at web.de
Tue Dec 28 13:07:04 CET 2010


"Philipp Stephani" <st_philipp at yahoo.de>, 28.12.2010 12:19:02:
> Am 28.12.2010 um 12:00 schrieb Uwe Lueck:
>
>> That is much worse with LaTeX's square brackets for optional arguments, as some scholars use square brackets for ellipsis or redactional insertions (I experienced this several times):
>> 
>>    Title-like\\ % imitating the manuscript's line break and spacing
>>    [unreadable] ipsum dolor sit amet
>
> That would be fixed if \@ifnextchar didn't swallow space tokens. [...]

    Lorem\\% NOTE: exactly as the manuscript! 
    [unreadable] dolor sit amet

Cheers, 

    Uwe.


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