If I use the abbrevs
package and define a \newabbrev using the following code
\newabbrev\gb{Great Britain}
and use it in the following example (taken from the xspace package documentation):
\gb, a small island off the coast of France
I get "Great Britain , a small island off the coast of France", which has a superfluous space inserted before the comma
In the xspace package documentation, they also defines an abbreviation for "Great Britain", but using \newcommand
instead of \newabbrev
, and they are also having the problem with the superfluous space before the comma. They solve it by putting the macro \xspace
after the full name, i.e. Great Britain\xspace
. When I follow their example and redefine the abbreviation as
\newabbrev\gb{Great Britain\xspace}
it has the opposite effect, i.e., an extra superfluous space is added before the comma (which I can't illustrate here). I have also tried to insert \@
before xspace
(which I found out you could do in this quite similar question), but that has no effect.
Any idéa of how to prevent an abbreviation defined with \newabbrev
to insert a space after the abbreviation has been used? The reason I'm using the abbrevs
package is because it provides a way of using one expansion of the abbreviation the first time it is used, and another expansion the resting times. I could just as well change to some other package that allowed me to do the same thing.
abbrevs
works as advertised. :( – egreg Jun 14 '12 at 13:00