How to access name of environment in its own definition

Asked May 17 '13 at 06:27

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How can I get access to the name of an environment from within its own definition?

Consider, e.g.:

\documentclass{article}
\newenvironment{test}{This is som text from environment \printname :}{}
\begin{document}
\begin{test}
  text
\end{test}
\end{document}

I would like \printname to give the name of the environment, such that I get the following output:

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asked May 17 '13 at 06:27

Håkon Hægland

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LaTeX stores this in \@currenvir. That is, replace \printname with \@currenvir (with the accompanying \makeatletter and \makeatother pair). However, this may be a duplicate of Command behavior depending on current environment or How can I check if the current code is inside a certain environment? – Werner May 17 '13 at 06:31
Thank you.. Yes I see now that the topic has been covered before in the links you mention.. Sorry, I must have used the wrong search phrase on google, since I could not find them myself :) – Håkon Hægland May 17 '13 at 06:50

How to access name of environment in its own definition

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