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In article <1990Aug16.214657.16764@sctc.com> herndon@sctc.com (William R.
Herndon) writes: 

> [ ... ] After defining about 500 macros, all of which had hyphens in them
> to help improve the readability of the names, I discovered much to my
> dismay [ ... ]

On the other hand it does recognize case, and whitespace may be used very
liberally.  If you are very keen to enhance the readibility of your raw TeX
file why not capitalize the first letter of each multi-word (MultiWord)
macro and just splash the old whitespace around in creative ways?

>
> So now what am I to do.  

Ditch 99% of your macros and use LaTeX.  And don't cheat.

I used to use TeX that way, too - write a macro for every conceivable
purpose.  However six years down the track I have come to realize that
this is *not* the way to go.  What you end up with is your own, generally
very inferior, LaTeX.  Moreover the defaults have generally been very well
thought out, ("Uncle Don knows best!"), and if you find you need a lot of
macros to do things just the way you want to do them, then more often than
not it is your judgment rather than that of the designers that is a fault.

If you find that you really do need 500 macros to use LaTeX, or even TeX,
for your purposes, then generally you would be better off using another
typesetting package, (like `trough' or `WordBrilliant' or whatever :-).

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