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From: MBEATTIE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK (Malcolm Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: "Indirect" definitions in TeX
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Date: 8 Mar 91 17:54:00 GMT
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        I would like to be able to define things "indirectly" or
"dynamically" in TeX (in fact, AMSTeX, not LaTeX).  More precisely,
I would like to be able to do something like:
 
\document
\newcount\chap
\newcount\sect
\define\makemark#1{\define\label#1{\the\chap.\the\sect}}
\define\refermark#1{\label#1}