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In this section we’ll create new control words. The making of these new definitions, also called macros, is one of the most powerful techniques available in TEX. For the first application of this facility, we’ll see how a new definition can save a lot of typing by substituting short strings for long ones.
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Doob, M. (1993). Rolling your own. In: TEX: starting from 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95704-8_7
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