About \newcommand

[Rolf Turner]

On Mon, 09 Aug 2021 21:45:36 +0000
Darío via texhax <texhax at tug.org> wrote:

> Hello! I have written an article, and habitually I use \newcommand
> for some words commonly write and with emphasis. For example
> \newcommand{\gnr}{\emph{género}}, but the problem is when I call the
> command and then compile because in the pdf the word género appears
> together to the next word, ie: (in .tex file) Pl \gnr puede definirse
> .... (in .pdf file compiled) El géneropuede definirse .... (can not
> show emphatic word género) Also occur without emphatic or without
> LaTeX command. As you can see, appears together with the words género
> and puede, how can you do it to separate the words? Not works fine if
> I define \newcommand{\gnr}{\emph{género }}, ie with a space final
> because may occur that I write a comma or dot.
> 
> Thanks a lot, regards!

If I understand you correctly (always a dubious assumption in my case!
:-)) all you need to do is put "\ " after the "\gnr".  (That's
"backslash space"):

   \gnr\ puede definirse

TeX/LaTex ignores spaces after a command name.  See [1], p. 53.

cheers,

Rolf Turner

[1] Leslie Lamport.  LaTeX --- A Document Preparation System;
User's Guide and Reference Manual, second edition, Addison-Wesley,
Boston, 1994.

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