Text Formatting ⇒ Formatting based on context, environment

[manukoch]

Hi,
I would like to write a macro that expands differently based on the context it is called in. So in normal text it should expand to value1, but if called in a section title or figure caption it should expand to the same text with different formatting.

I am aware that I should use the ifthenelse environment, but I do not know what condition to test for; maybe anyone of you can help.

What I want here is to avoid some special formatting in headings and captions, maybe there is a other way to do that entirely?

So it should look like this:

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\newcommand{\ExpandMe}{
\ifthenelse{-- we are in normal text -- }
   {\emph{\textsmaller{ExpandMe}}}
   {ExpandMe}
}

Thanks!