On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:45:47 +0800, Thierry Arnoux <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> The table in the "convention" lists /some commonly used/ abbreviations.
> 
> Shall we try to make it as exhaustive as possible so that it becomes a
> /reference/, which can be used when one wants to find an existing
> theorem, or name a new one?

If we made an exhaustive table then it'd have to include all the "df-..." 
entries.
Ignoring mathboxes, that would require 779 definitions, only a few of
which are there now (counted with grep 'df-.*$a' ,set.mm | wc -l).

That's a pretty big table.
I think the shorter table is easier to deal with, so I don't think we
should eliminate the short table.

If you want an exhaustive table,
we could create a script to automatically generate
an exhaustive table by combining the short table and the "df-... $a" 
definitions.
We could run that once & edit by hand, or just rerun the script
to keep generating the full table.  An exhaustive table produced from a
script is more likely to actually stay correct, once it's correct :-).

--- David A. Wheeler

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