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From: rig@eng.umd.edu (Ronald Greenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Help on LaTeX hacking.
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.181407.20206@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 91 18:14:07 GMT
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In article <1991Jan29.112220.9742@news.arc.nasa.gov> ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa) writes:
>>> Now I can just put \tleid in normal text.  The first problem is that this
>>> will ignore a normal space after \tleid.  If I put a hard space in the
>>> definition, it wouldn't work if followed by a punctuation mark.  
>
>Invoke the macro with, eg,
>
>put \tleid{} in normal text.
>
>An alternative is 
>
>put \tleid\ in normal text.

Sure, I have several macros that I use this way.  But it is always
annoying that I sometimes forget to put in the extra \ in the all
places where I need a space.  Has somebody got a macro that will put
in a space unless the next character is a punctuation mark?
--

Ron Greenberg		rig@umiacs.umd.edu