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From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Donald Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Help!  I need help with a TeX macro!
Keywords: TeX macros
Message-ID: <518@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 17 Mar 89 03:16:04 GMT
References: <126@noether.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhosek@jarthur.UUCP (Donald Hosek)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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In article <126@noether.UUCP> jmf@noether.UUCP (Jose M. Figueroa) writes:
>I tried the obvious
>
>\def\Make#1{\xdef\csname r#1\endcsname{  blah blah blah }}
>
Try doing

\def\Make#1{\expandafter\xdef\csname r#1\endcsname{...}}

-dh