At 22:15 +0100 2000/01/02, Frank Mittelbach wrote: >Some time ago James (i think) remarked that one important aspect of >the template mechanism is to come up with sensible names for the >keywords. This is certainly true and unfortunately far from easy. > >I've just found some notes written late last century on possible And probably late last millenium, too. :-) >frank I will try to be frank, too, even though it sometimes can be hard. :-) >Key name suffixes: >------------------ ... > -sep: "length" specifying a separation between two points > > -height: "length" specifying a height of some object > > -width: "length" specifying a <guess> :-) of some object > > -id: abstract "name" for some object or for some action > Type is n I can note that all suffix names are complete English words, except -sep. If one is inconsistent in this respect, names can be difficult to remember. (As everybody knows, "id" is the primitive undifferentiated part of the psychic apparatus that reacts blindly on a pleasure pain-level, and was the downfall of the Krells in the movie "Forbidden Planet".) -- Just some the "millennium-after" comments. HA