what is the difference between a tex command and a tex macro?
What is the difference between ‘macro’ and ‘command’?
- It seems, in the TeXbook the term “command” is used when the focus is on that stage where the programmer produces/delivers/types whatsoever .tex-input.
- It seems, in the TeXbook the terms “token” and “macro” are used when the focus is on that stage where the TeX-program does process the .tex-input.
- In TeX macros are always defined by
\defand its variants such as\edef. LaTeX definition commands such as\newcommandare themselves macros that ultimately result in an application of\defto define a macro.