On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 9:02:25 PM UTC+1, Norman Megill wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 1:40:54 PM UTC-5, Alexander van der 
> Vekens wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 7:00:48 PM UTC+1, Norman Megill wrote:
>>>
>>> Since there were no other replies, unfortunately I just updated set.mm 
>>> with both discouragements on every ALT because of the problems they were 
>>> creating.  I suppose I could revert and do the analysis all over, but I 
>>> want to get the minimizations applied soon without unwanted side effects.  
>>> How many of your theorems does this affect?
>>>
>> Sorry, I was on a journey over the weekend...
>> But don't worry, there are some ALT definitions/theorems in my mathbox 
>> about magmas/semigroups and graphs which are affected. For these, I can 
>> take care by myself.  So if we use ALT for alternate proofs only (in  the 
>> future), we could use Alt for "alternate definitions/variants of theorems". 
>> Then we can check the tags for *ALT theorems, and will have no checks for 
>> *Alt theorems.
>>
>
> Not sure if "Alt" vs. "ALT" will be confusing;  I was going to suggest 
> ALTV for alternate version.  But any suffix will do.  What I propose is 
> that the ALT suffix be treated as a kind of markup keyword that will always 
> require both discouragements, regardless of what it is used for, and 
> anything else like *Alt or *ALTV will be ignored by 'verify markup' i.e. 
> treated as just another label so you can do anything you want with it as 
> far as discouragements.
>
> Basically, then, *OLD and *ALT will be the only "keyword" patterns 
> recognized by 'verify markup' for the time being and will require both 
> discouragements.  It might be useful to add more patterns in the future, 
> but let's keep it simple for now.  The essential difference between OLD and 
> ALT is that OLD will expire and eventually be deleted.  Agreed?
>
Yes, I fully agree!


> Therefore I won't revert the discouragement commit, and at some point you 
> can change the labels and discouragements in your mathbox per your 
> preference.  I'm not aware of any other such situations outside of your 
> mathbox, but if there are any they can be handled individually as the need 
> arises.
>
Also OK for me. 

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