[texhax] Vspace Question

[Donald Arseneau]

=?gb18030?B?yO7vow==?= <rz1991 at foxmail.com> writes:

> I am writing my essay using latex, and find a problem that things I defined using \newcommand shows different effect compared with writing it directly in the body text. Hope someone could explain why. Here is a small example.
> 
> 
> \sep{4mm}
> some things here
> 
> 
> \vspace{4mm}\noindent
> Are texts above truly indent?


Spaces are "discarded" after command words.  Spaces are NOT discarded after braces.
In a paragraph, ends of lines are treated as spaces.

There is the command \ignorespaces that you can use in your definition.

Donald Arseneau                          asnd at triumf.ca