barton,
> I rarely use multi-letter identifiers for expressions that
> I TeX. On those rare occasions that I do, I generally use
> texput to modify the TeX. Most likely, I'll change my mactex
> to not use the {\it ... }. Not a big deal.
well, i'll change mactex so that {\it ...} is emitted only for symbols longer
than 1 character. then you won't have to maintain a private version.
robert