On 04/02/10 06:08:47, Larry Kollar wrote: > This actually brings up something that has been bugging me for a > while, and I think deserves its own thread: we should come up with > some namespace guidelines for macro packages, especially for > internal-use macros, to prevent conflicts. Whatever we agree on could > go in the texinfo document.
As one who lacks the coding skills to contribute, but who often creates ad hoc macros in specific documents, I would like the texinfo document to contain suggestions for the naming of macros that are created within documents. For example, I use caps+lc with * as a word separator for macros that will only be called by other macros: .de My*Ad*Hoc*Macro but this suffers the obvious problem when the macros are intended to be inserted into the body copy by $USER. I currently use: .de MAHM and .de Mahm for this purpose but live in fear that I have accidentally overridden some tremendously important macro in a package that I am about to use. Perhaps, texinfo might address this point? Or have I missed something? Robert Thorsby There is none so blind as they that won't see. -- Jonathan Swift, "Polite Conversation"