Re: define command

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Alan STONE wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For example
>
> \define\somemacro[3]{...}
>
> gets invoked with
>
> \somemacro{#1}{#2}{#3}
>
> How do you get rid of those repeating pesky curly brackets and
> invoke a user defined macro with
>
> \somemacro{#1,#2,#3}
>
> instead ?  :O)

Others have replied how to define this if you want arbitrary number of 
parameters. But if you want something similar to \somemacro#1#2#3 you can 
use (the is some extra book-keeing because you want {..} as delimiters. 
Which means you either change catcodes, or do this shuffling around of 
arguments)

\def\somemacro#1%
    {\dosomemaco[#1]}

\def\dosomemacro[#1,#2,#3]%
   {whatever you want the macro to be}

Aditya
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