Questions tagged [xspace]

Let's say my macro is \newcommand{\k}{king\xspace}. Then the spacings in "... said the \k." will be fine. But what do I do if I want no spacing in the middle of \k\k.? I want "kingking." not "king king." Is there a way to do this?

I wrote a \newcommand*{\test}{test\xspace}. Everything works as expected, but my question is the following: is there a way to generate a non-breaking space version of \xspace? Thanks.

I put xspace at the end of most of my macros, e.g. \newcommand*{\foobar}{foobar\index{foobar}\xspace} but I just discovered that if the macro is placed inside textit, it does not work as expected, e.g. Test 1: \foobar. Test 2:…