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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900
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+abbr.tex is a file containing some simple macros to support
+abbreviations in plain or latex.
+
+Usage example:
+
+=====================================================================
+\input abbr
+
+\abbr{TEX}{\TeX}{TeX}
+\abbr{LATEX}{\LaTeX}{LaTeX}
+\abbr{TEX4HT}{\TeX4HT}{TeX4ht}
+% more user-defined abbreviations here if needed
+
+I love \<TEX> and \<LATEX>, espciallly when I don't have to pay attention
+whether to espace or not to espace a space after a \<TEX> control sequence.
+I also love \<TEX4HT>, and when using it I prefer to have `TeX' and `LaTeX'
+in the html output intead of `TEX' and 'LATEX'. Using abbr.tex also frees
+me from having to remember whether I defined a \ControlSequence or
+\controlsequence or \Controlsequence, and where. Anytime when I need to use
+some abbreviation, I just write \<FOO> and if it's not defined, I add a new
+definition to abbr.tex. It also saves a lot of typing, because in fact
+what I type is not '\<FOO>' but 'foo' and some shortcut to turn it to
+\<FOO>.
+=====================================================================