[OS X TeX] writing sty files

[Alan Munn]

At 9:58 AM -0500 11/21/06, Themis Matsoukas wrote:
>I have a custom .sty file that contains my personal environments and 
>shortcuts. One of these shortcuts involves the command \newcomment 
>which only works inside memoir. This means that if I call the style 
>file using anything other class than memoir, this command gives an 
>error (even if it is not used in the current file). Is there a way 
>to check within a package whether the current class is memoir or 
>something else? This would allow me to define \newcomment only if 
>memoir is loaded.

\@ifpackageloaded{<package name>}{<then part>}{<else part>}

Alan

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