Text Formatting ⇒ reproduce large amounts of text

[bobbylou]

I am writing a document in which I want to print identical text a few times per page (separated by some space). Unless there is some other way, I was trying to define a new command consisting of the text and then calling the command a few times in the document. This seems to work fine if the command is just text; however, I want the command to include other commands, such as \begin{figure}...\end{figure}, etc. This doesn't seem to work. So for example:

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\newcommand{\cmd}{
\begin{figure}
...
\end{figure}
}

\begin{document}

\cmd \bigskip \cmd

\end{document}

gives an error. Any advice? Thanks.

[torbjorn t.]

Your example (when a \documentclass statement is added) compiles fine here, so something else is wrong.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

The figure environment is a floating environment. So it doesn't work in all places. Perhaps this may be the problem, if you use \cmd at an unsuitable place.

Stefan