General ⇒ How do I save values temporarily?

[Julian_S_Moore]

I need to switch fontsize and skip in a new command and want to be able to restore the values before the command was called (so I don't have to worry about knowing what they are all the time).

How would I do that?

Thanks

[gmedina]

Hi,

you can use the grouping mechanism to keep changes local. The following code illustrates this (the font change produced by \myfontb will apply only to its argument):

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\documentclass{book}

\newcommand\myfonta[1]{\fontsize{20}{24}\selectfont#1}
\newcommand\myfontb[1]{{\fontsize{20}{24}\selectfont#1}}

\begin{document}

text text \myfonta{text text} text text
\normalsize

text text \myfontb{text text} text text

\end{document}

[Julian_S_Moore]

Ah! Thanks for the insight/reminder into grouping!