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I'm fairly new to LaTeX so I don't really know much yet.

Is there a way I can make a custom document class that embeds an external document containing custom macros?

For example, I have right now a MyBook.cls file with a few small changes from the default Book document class. I would also like to define a bunch of \newcommand{} macros, but I don't want to have to do it in every custom document class.

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You can put your \newcommand in a mycommands.sty or mycommands.tex file and then load it using, respectively \usepackage{mycommands} or \input{mycommands.tex} – Guido Dec 11 '12 at 20:30
Do you mean you want to create a file (or 'package' --- say mycustomcmds.sty) that contains several macros you want to use in many different documents that all use MyBook.cls? I think this can be done with \usepackage{mycustomcmds}. But perhaps you have something trickier in mind..? – jon Dec 11 '12 at 20:31
A package did the job, thanks. Had no idea I could easily make my own package like that. Now I can just \usepackage on my custom list of commands. – agent154 Dec 11 '12 at 20:47

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A package is what I was looking for. I just made a custom .sty file and now I can load it whenever I wish.

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