Joerg Knappen wrote --

>
> Too long commands encourage the authors to come up with their own, incompatible
> abbreviations. It makes processing LaTeX documents on a large scale more
> difficult.

I sympathise with this problem but I do not think that it can or
should be solved by allowing LaTeX syntax to be as quirky as Knuth's,
thus compromising essential qualities of a sophisticated document
formatting system.


chris