[XeTeX] Need some input about \newcommand to create alias

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

Aha, so one needs to load the package xltxtra - I guess the 'xtra' part means "extra" :-)). \textsubscript is thus NOT built into xelatex, but provided by a package. OK, I'll keep it in mind. For most of my work I use "standard" pdflatex + memoir, so then the \textsubscript is also available.

Cheerio,
Wilfred

--- On Sat, 28/11/09, Joachim Trinkwitz <jtr at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> From: Joachim Trinkwitz <jtr at uni-bonn.de>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Need some input about \newcommand to create alias
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Saturday, 28 November, 2009, 7:21 PM
> Am 28.11.2009 um 07:28 schrieb
> Wilfred van Rooijen:
> 
> > Hey, interesting. I tried and I get:
> 
> >>> snip snip
> > 
> > ! Undefined control sequence.
> > l.5 Test of subscripting: CO\textsubscript
> >               
>                
>           {2}.
> 
> Well, we don't know what you where trying, cause you didn't
> bother to tell us, but I'm almost sure you forgot to load
> the package xltxtra, something you definitively should
> having around when using XeLaTeX.
> 
> The following works perfectly for me:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \usepackage{xspace}
> \newcommand{\cotwo}{CO\textsubscript{2}\xspace}
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> \cotwo
> 
> \end{document}
> 
> Joachim
> 
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