Hi Phil, Zdeněk and others.
On 12 Apr 2020, at 7:46 pm, Philip Taylor
<p.tay...@hellenic-institute.uk<mailto:p.tay...@hellenic-institute.uk>> wrote:
Zdeněk Wagner wrote:
I would not do it. Of course, you cannot use \renewcommand because
\scenename is not used in any *.ldf. You could use \def\scenename{दरश्य} […]
LaTeX has \providecommand with the same syntax as \newcommand and
\renewcommand .
It makes the definition *only* if the c-s is not already known.
This means that you can always use:
\providecommand\mycs{}
\renewcommand\mycs{ what I really want }
to get around such issues.
A thought — if \scenename is not known at the point that the last line of
[gloss-]marathi.ldf is read, would there be any point in using \def \scenename
{दरश्य}, since such definition would either get over-ridden by whatever
subsequent definition of \scename is causing the problem (\def, \renewcommand),
or would prevent a subsequent \newcommand from working as \scenename would
already be defined. Is this not the case (he asked, as someone who barely
understands anything that LaTeX does ...) ?
There is always a way to get what you want,
whether using Plain TeX or LaTeX or whatever other high-level macro structures.
Thus the important thing is how to make it resistant to updates, as Zdeněk said.
Philip Taylor
Hope this helps.
Stay safe.
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