General ⇒ Change standard arguments of \newcommand

[Thomas_l]

Hi All

I am working on a presentation and have to use a load of references. These references looks like this:

• par. 4.4.1 blz 4.30 - 4.31

So i defined my one command t do this automaticaly to get this result:

• \verw{4.2.2}{4.6}{4.7} => par. 4.2.2 blz. 4.6 - 4.7

Whenever i use this function i get the standard form:

• \verw{arg1}{arg2}{arg3}

Is there a way to change this form to:

• \verw{section}{startpage}{endpage}

This would make it a load easyer for me to remember what i have to put where in the command.

Regards

Thoams

[cgnieder]

Hi Thomas,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

It is of course possible to program a command with a different syntax. The question is: which syntax would you like?

Edit: I realized I misread your question... and I must admit I am not 100% sure I got what you want. Could you please post a minimal working example?

Regards

[sommerfee]

Whenever i use this function i get the standard form:

• \verw{arg1}{arg2}{arg3}

Is there a way to change this form to:

• \verw{section}{startpage}{endpage}

To me this seems to be a problem with your editor, not with LaTeX itself.

So what editor do you use?

[Thomas_l]

I atached a file which I hope brings a litle more clearity.

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I used this source code (hope this is what you mean whit a minimal example)

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\documentclass{article}

\newcommand{\ref}[3]{par. #1 page: #2 - #3}

\begin{document}
\ref{arg1}{arg2}{arg3}
\ref{section}{starting page}{ending page}
\end{document}

To me this seems to be a problem with your editor, not with LaTeX itself.

So what editor do you use?

I use the Texstudio editor

[cgnieder]

Ok, so I did misunderstand your question and Axel was right. Unfortunately I don't have much experience with TeXstudio but I'll take a look when I'm home.

Regards

[Thomas_l]

Ok, so I did misunderstand your question and Axel was right. Unfortunately I don't have much experience with TeXstudio but I'll take a look when I'm home.

Regards

So if I use another editor this would be possible?

Thanks in advance for looking into it.

[cgnieder]

So if I use another editor this would be possible?

I know for sure it is possible with Kile which isn't easy to install on Windows IIRC, though. I would think it should be doable with TeXstudio, too, but I have to wait until I am home where I have a Windows desktop so I can test it.

Regards