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>>>>> "Hans" == Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

    Hans> Hi All, Sometimes keying in macros can be annoying. For this
    Hans> reason, sometimes macro packages use | to shorten things,
    Hans> like |word| for verbatim in macros related to programming
    Hans> source code or manuals. In itself such macros are not that
    Hans> expressive, but they at least save typing keys.

While the idea of shortcuts is nice, I'm not too happy about this
implementation.  These things are really key-shortcuts, not templates.

So the name really should be \defineshortcut, IMO. Otherwise, you
might run into conflicts later when and if Context starts using real
templates (a 'real' template is like for instance the message
libraries' -- notation for the extra information). 

For syntax, I am a little unsure about the |. Why not use a syntax
like <b:bold>? I wouldn't be worried about hacing \catcode`<=13;
because that char almost never used outside of math.

Taco