Declare macro for simple text snippets

Asked Jun 25 '13 at 16:22

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I want to use something like this:

\newcommand{\favouritealgorithm}{\texttt{Gaussian elimination}}

so that

My favourite algorithm is \favouritealgorithm written in C.

produces

My favourite algorithm is \texttt{Gaussian elimination} written in C.

However, the space after the word "elimination" is omitted. Which macro provides the correct behaviour?

edited Jun 25 '13 at 16:26

egreg

asked Jun 25 '13 at 16:22

shuhalo

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This has been asked several times: see http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31091/3954 or http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/25825/3954. – Gonzalo Medina Jun 25 '13 at 16:25
You can write My favourite algorithm is \favouritealgorithm\ written in C. – Sigur Jun 25 '13 at 16:28
you could use the xspace package and add \xspace at the end of your definition. – Jun 25 '13 at 16:28
or you could surround your invocation in braces, as in is {\favoritealgorithm} wr... – Steven B. Segletes Jun 25 '13 at 16:36

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