LaTeX: user defined variables?

[walla]

I would like to know if it is possible to have user defined variables in LaTeX.

I'm relatively new to this language. What I would like to do is something like this...

sp1=0.5in

...

\vspace{sp1}

 

[flyboy84]

gahhh! my girlfriend wrote her senior thesis in that LaTeX craziness...drove her nuts for a term! GL!

 

[walla]

Originally posted by: flyboy84
gahhh! my girlfriend wrote her senior thesis in that LaTeX craziness...drove her nuts for a term! GL!

this is the first time i am force to use LaTeX. Quite honestly, I may never go back to MS Word.

 

[Soccer55]

Originally posted by: walla
I would like to know if it is possible to have user defined variables in LaTeX.

I'm relatively new to this language. What I would like to do is something like this...

sp1=0.5in

...

\vspace{sp1}

Is this what you're looking for?

-Tom