General ⇒ Include items from file

[jpadron]

Hello,

I am writing a document about laws and I wanted to have a file to keep all singular laws together in any way, such as:

Law-1-500{
Murder is forbidden.
}

So I could quote it later in any place in the document by writing a quotecommand that could work like:

\includeLaw{Law-1-500}

So I get:

Murder is forbidden.

That way I could change the law in just one file and have it updated through all the document. I've searched the forum and the internet but I can't find a way to do it. I think I can manage to define the new command, but I can't imagine how to retrieve the law item from a file.

Thank you.

[gmedina]

Hi,

you could create a .sty file and then store all the laws using commands; then you can load the file as usual in the preamble of your document and invoke the corresponding commands. A little schematic example:

the file MyLaws.sty:

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\newcommand\Lawid{Murder is forbidden.}

\newcommand\Lawiicvi{Theft is forbidden.}

the .tex document:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{MyLaws}

\begin{document}

\Lawid

\Lawiicvi

\end{document}