Re: definesynonyms

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Bernd Militzer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> for a large ancestor-project I defined a set of informations for a  
> lot of persons like you can see below.
> 
> QUESTION: how many synonyms  can I  max. define? I need about 4000 defs.

If you need only 4000 separate PIDs, that should work ok.

> or has someone a better idea to handle those informations.

But it is probably easier to write a small database interface
layer. Somewhat like this (note that I had to change \doGeTPID
as well).

   \def\PID[#1][#2]{\getparameters[PID#1][#2]}

   \def\doGetPID#1#2{\getvalue{PID#2#1}}

   \def\getPID#1{\doGetPID{Fam}{#1}, \doGetPID{Vor}{#1}~(#1)}

   \PID[268]
       [Fam=Rudolph,
        Nam=Rudluffen,
        Vor=Adam]

Cheers, Taco