Setting a New Command (or is it an Environment?)

Question

Here's a small example of what I have to use. I have to reset the length everytime I use \marginnote because it restarts indenting and reformats the skip to 0.

\marginnote{\normalsize Some text goes here}
\setlength{\parindent}{0in}
\setlength{\parskip}{0.15in}

What I would like to be able to do is redefine this behaviour so I don't have to type so much junk (and keep my tex/Sweave document cleaner)

\somecommand Some text goes here 

Is there a way to get it to do so?

Answer 1

You could use a grouping structure to localise any changes made by \marginnote:

\newcommand{\somecommand}[1]{% \somecommand{<text>}
  \begingroup
  \marginnote{\normalsize #1}%
  \endgroup
}

You would then use

\somecommand{Some text goes here.}