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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label csname</title>
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<h3>Defining a macro from an argument</h3>
-<p/>It&rsquo;s common to want a command to create another command: often one
-wants the new command&rsquo;s name to derive from an argument. LaTeX
+<p/>It&#8217;s common to want a command to create another command: often one
+wants the new command&#8217;s name to derive from an argument. LaTeX
does this all the time: for example, <code>\</code><code>newenvironment</code> creates
start- and end-environment commands whose names are derived from the
name of the environment command.
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ name of the environment command.
\def\relay#1#2{\def\#1{#2}}
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</blockquote><p>
-doesn&rsquo;t work (the TeX engine interprets it
+doesn&#8217;t work (the TeX engine interprets it
as a rather strange redefinition of <code>#</code>). The trick is to use
<code>\</code><code>csname</code>, which is a TeX primitive for generating command names
from random text, together with <code>\</code><code>expandafter</code>. The definition
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ above should read:
With this definition, <code>\</code><code>relay{blah}{bleah}</code> is equivalent to
<code>\</code><code>def</code><code>\</code><code>blah{bleah}</code>.
<p/>Note that the definition of <code>\</code><code>relay</code> omits the braces round the
-&lsquo;command name&rsquo; in the <code>\</code><code>newcommand</code> it executes. This is
-because they&rsquo;re not necessary (in fact they seldom are), and in this
+&#8216;command name&#8217; in the <code>\</code><code>newcommand</code> it executes. This is
+because they&#8217;re not necessary (in fact they seldom are), and in this
circumstance they make the macro code slightly more tedious.
<p/>The name created need not (of course) be <em>just</em> the argument:
<blockquote>
@@ -52,6 +52,6 @@ With commands
\def\finish#1{\csname finish#1\endcsname}
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</blockquote><p>
-these &lsquo;races&rsquo; could behave a bit like LaTeX environments.
+these &#8216;races&#8217; could behave a bit like LaTeX environments.
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=csname">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=csname</a>
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