[texhax] \begin{...}...\end{...} VS. its shorthands

[Hartmut Henkel]

On Fri, 16 May 2003, ky anh wrote:

> Using \begin{...}...\end{...} kills our time.
> Is there any best way to save the time?

If you are alone with your document, you still can do

\def\bit{\begin{itemize}}
\def\eit{\end{itemize}}

\bit
\item Hi
\item Wow
\eit

Or use groff with its terse commands :-)

15 years ago, at the University, I have let students build a
200-foil-key extension keyboard with the most important LaTeX commands
inscribed. It was looped into the std. keyboard line. But actually never
used.

Hartmut