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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Redefining a macro in terms of itself
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.194705.1024@csrd.uiuc.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 91 19:47:05 GMT
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anita@chopin.udel.edu (Anita Marie Hoover) writes:

>In article <1991Jan15.061451@bcat1.prime.com> kjg@s49.prime.com writes:
>>
>>This is what
>>my intention is:
>>
>>\renewcommand{\tableofcontents}{\parskip 0in \tableofcontents}
>>\renewcommand{\marginpar}{#1}{\scriptsize \marginpar{#1}}
>>

>The way to redefine such macros is to go to the style file and get the
>definition and make it part of your private LaTeX style file.  

That's *a* way, not *the* way.

\let\xtableofcontents\tableofcontents
\renewcommand{\tableofcontents}{\parskip 0in \xtableofcontents}


Victor.