[pdftex] Getting the correct word spacing after Macros.

[Kester Clegg]

Olaf Dietrich <olaf at dtrx.de> writes:

> Michael Chapman (2002-06-11T09:27:05+0000):
> > 
> > 
> > I have a document with several dozen complicated words/phrases. To 
> > trivialise, if I were to set:
> > 
> > \newcommand{\USA}{United States of America}
> > 
> > is there an easy way of making the command so a space is (automatically) 
> > inserted if the next character is a letter or number, but no space is 
> > inserted if the next character is punctuation.
> 
> Use the xspace package.

Use a decent editor that intelligently expands abbreviations as you type!
(emacs?)

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