General ⇒ New Commands

[eleanor]

Hi.

I've defined a couple of new commands, like:
\picture
\video

that I use mostly when parsing latex into HTML. But the problem is that I would also want other people to use the latex code (not the heading - everything before \begin{document} and after \end{document}).

I know that I can also post the header information, but not many people wants to actually use that, since they probably redefine their own commands.

So my question is: should I redefined known commands like \includegraphics (well there isn't one for \video though), so when people will use my latex, they can actually compile the code with their own header - since every command is defined (in the contrary to \picture, \video)?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I would not silently redefine known commands. This would mean that the same code works differently in the documents of other people.

I would make my own definitions, put them into a file such as commands.tex and tell the other people to load it in their preamble by

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\input{commands}

Stefan