CTAN has a new package: xnewcommand

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again for the package, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: xnewcommand Author's name: Josselin Noirel Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xnewcommand Summary description: Allow to define \protected or \global macros by means of \newcommand License type: lppl Announcement text:

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For most purposes, the features of \newcommand suffice. Nonetheless, \newcommand lacks some interesting features like the ability to make definition global or to use the \protected prefix supplied by e-TEX. This--surprisingly small--package makes possible to pass an optional argument \newcommand so that is becomes possible to use the \global and \protected prefixes.

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This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xnewcommand . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=xnewcommand (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .