General ⇒ custom macros

[gabrielz]

Hi,
I'm new to the forum and I hope I'm posting it in the right place.
I'm looking for a way to define a general command that will generate other macros. For example create a command called
"\newAnimal" that receives 2 arguments name and description and for the following input "\newAnimal{CAT}{9 souls animal}" generates the following macros \animalCAT which writes "CAT" in blue and \descriptionCAT writes "9 souls animal"

Thanks
Gaby

[phi]

That's possible with \csname. The etoolbox package provides a simple wrapper for some of these tasks:

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\usepackage{etoolbox}
\newrobustcmd*{\newAnimal}[2]{%
  \csdef{animal#1}{\textcolor{blue}{#1}}%
  \csdef{description#1}{#2}%
}