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+# namedef
+Named parameters in TeX definitions
+
+This package allows you to use names rather than numbers in TeX
+definitions. Usually a definition would look like:
+```tex
+\def\SayHello#1%
+  {Hello, #1!}
+```
+which is usually good enough.  However sometimes when writing macros the
+programmer (I, at least) has a macro with several arguments, and then
+adding another argument before `#1` requires changing all the numbers
+in the definition:
+```tex
+\def\Say#1#2%
+  {#1, #2!}
+```
+which again, is usually fine most of the time.  But sometimes the
+definition is rather long, and has a handful of arguments, so changing
+the order requires the programmer to change a lot of `#1` to `#2` in the
+code, which is tedious, at best.
+
+With `namedef` you can prefix your definition with `\named`, then every
+parameter should be given a name:
+```tex
+\named\def\SayHello#[subject]%
+  {Hello, #[subject]!}
+```
+then adding another argument before the existing ones is trivial:
+```tex
+\named\def\Say#[greeting]#[subject]%
+  {#[greeting], #[subject]!}
+```
+and to change the order of the arguments you just swap `#[greeting]` and
+`#[subject]` in the <code>&langle;parameter text&rangle;</code>. No
+other changes required!
+
+Note that this can be (ab)used for writing macros, but it should
+probably be removed for publishing the code.
+
+---
+
+This repository contains the source code `namedef.dtx` and the
+installation file `namedef.ins`.  To create the package file
+`namedef.sty`, run:
+```
+tex namedef.ins
+```
+and to produce the documentation, run:
+```
+pdflatex namedef.ins
+```
+
+---
+
+Copyright (C) 2019--2020 Phelype Oleinik
+
+This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
+the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license
+or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this
+license is in
+
+    http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
+
+and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
+version 2005/12/01 or later.
+
+This work is "maintained" (as per the LPPL maintenance status)
+by Phelype Oleinik.
+
+Please send bug reports or feature requests at the project repository:
+https://github.com/PhelypeOleinik/namedef
+or by e-mail (contact info in the source file).
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