General ⇒ Use a predefined newcommand in another newcommand.

[centguy]

Can I have

\newcommand{A}{This}

and then
do \newcommand{B}{\A\A} to get \B = ThisThis ??

I tried but it won't work. How can I do to solve this problem? I would like to have a hierarchical way of defining new commands.

Thanks!!

[phi]

This works as requested:

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\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\A}{This}
\newcommand{\B}{\A\A}
\begin{document}
\B
\end{document}

[centguy]

Great phi !! It is working now.

As someone who always wonder what went wrong, I guess
I have goofed up when I tried something like
\newcommand{\PDF}{A}
\newcommand{\PDFa}{\PDF/a}

I think..

Thanks for the reply ! If not, I would have an ugly layout in my document!

[centguy]

Actually I goofed up again..
\PDFa is working fine. I must have used \PDF1a (which broke the newcommand, I thought the little 'a' will
make LaTeX view PDF1a as a whole unit, but apparently not.), and I believe the true reason is that the newcommand does not like weird
characters. Thanks for the patience if you have followed so far...

[josephwright]

(La)TeX command names are made up of letters, so trying to create anything with a number in will tend to cause problems.
--
Joseph Wright