A friend of mine works with a professor that defines: \be -> \begin{equation}, \ee -> \end{equation}, \ga -> \gamma, \gm -> \gamma, \s -> \section, and so on P

A friend of mine works with a professor that defines: \be -> \begin{equation}, \ee -> \end{equation}, \ga -> \gamma, \gm -> \gamma, \s -> \section, and so on Personally I think that latex should produce pdf documents with better mappings so that copy-paste and latex-paragraphs are preserved, even if obviously it will still get messed up in complex layouts