Text Formatting ⇒ side effect of \newcommand{\junk}[1]{}

[wee]

i see some one uses this command to remove junks in latex, but find that in some cases like:
"alpha \junk{bla bla} beta", latex makes more space between "alpha" and "beta" than just "alpha beta". i suppose latex treats it like "alpha {} beta".

any ideas to remove the side effect? thx, it really bugs me for a while.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

\ignorespaces could help.

Stefan