[Tugindia] Difference between these commands

[Sebastian Vattamattam]

Yes, Mathematicians never think.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roopakshi Pathania" <r_akshi_tgk at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Difference between these commands



Hi,

To answer the first part of your query, \newcommand is a LaTeX macro that 
accepts \par and blank lines in its argument.
On the other hand \newcommand* does not accept the \long nature of the 
argument.
The \newcommand* is more commonly used.

Regards

"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
~ John Von Neumann


--- On Sun, 5/3/09, Kalidoss Murugesan <kalidoss.murugesan at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Kalidoss Murugesan <kalidoss.murugesan at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Tugindia] Difference between these commands
> To: "TUGIndia Mailing List" <tugindia at tug.org>
> Date: Sunday, May 3, 2009, 8:58 PM
> Dear TUGindia,
>
> What is the difference between the following commands?
>
> 1.
> \newcommand
> and
> \newcommand*
> 2.
> \hspace*
> and
> \hskip
>
> Thanks in advance.
> M. Kalidoss
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