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From: John W. Wooten
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 19:15

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I have a document in which I have the following:

\newcommand{\literacy}{This is what literacy means.....}
\literacy

Now that prints out the stuff defined just fine.  Later I have an  
\appendix section that starts renumbering etc.

and I have

\literacy

I get the message that \literacy is an undefined control sequence.  The  
reason for doing the above was to have the same wording in two  
different places in the manuscript.  What has happened?

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J. W. Wooten

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