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wvenable@spam.ua.oz.au (Bill Venables) writes:

>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.

   Nay, Nay.  I've misstated my intent.  I AM using LaTeX.  The macros that
   I am defining are simple textual substitutions for sections of text that 
   occur many times in many documents.  I use the TeX \def command as opposed
   to the LaTeX \newcommand because of my own bad habits, but the problem 
   with the hyphen persists.  I am using the macros much as one would use 
   a #define in the C language, mostly to save on the problem of maintaining
   these text sections in multiple documents.

>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. 

    I agree with you one hundred percent.

    BTW  Thanks to all who responded.  The capitalization idea, mentioned by
    more than one respondee, is excellent, and I will use it.



								- Max

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