Index: doc/LaTeXmacros/common.tex
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--- doc/LaTeXmacros/common.tex	(revision 8d91e6a04720221fbc1f80127feb311d7d88be7e)
+++ doc/LaTeXmacros/common.tex	(revision 7ee1e2f680889bd1007bad91d7b36d00880e948d)
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@
 %% Created On       : Sat Apr  9 10:06:17 2016
 %% Last Modified By : Peter A. Buhr
-%% Last Modified On : Mon Jul 24 21:02:14 2017
-%% Update Count     : 352
+%% Last Modified On : Mon Aug 28 09:39:38 2017
+%% Update Count     : 354
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 
@@ -148,21 +148,25 @@
 % Latin abbreviation
 \newcommand{\abbrevFont}{\textit}	% set empty for no italics
+\newcommand{\EG}{\abbrevFont{e}.\abbrevFont{g}.}
 \newcommand*{\eg}{%
-	\@ifnextchar{,}{\abbrevFont{e}.\abbrevFont{g}.}%
-		{\@ifnextchar{:}{\abbrevFont{e}.\abbrevFont{g}.}%
-			{\abbrevFont{e}.\abbrevFont{g}.,\xspace}}%
-}%
+	\@ifnextchar{,}{\EG}%
+		{\@ifnextchar{:}{\EG}%
+			{\EG,\xspace}}%
+}%
+\newcommand{\IE}{\abbrevFont{i}.\abbrevFont{e}.}
 \newcommand*{\ie}{%
-	\@ifnextchar{,}{\abbrevFont{i}.\abbrevFont{e}.}%
-		{\@ifnextchar{:}{\abbrevFont{i}.\abbrevFont{e}.}%
-			{\abbrevFont{i}.\abbrevFont{e}.,\xspace}}%
-}%
+	\@ifnextchar{,}{\IE}%
+		{\@ifnextchar{:}{\IE}%
+			{\IE,\xspace}}%
+}%
+\newcommand{\ETC}{\abbrevFont{etc}}
 \newcommand*{\etc}{%
-	\@ifnextchar{.}{\abbrevFont{etc}}%
-        {\abbrevFont{etc}.\xspace}%
-}%
+	\@ifnextchar{.}{\ETC}%
+        {\ETC\xspace}%
+}%
+\newcommand{\ETAL}{\abbrevFont{et\:al}}
 \newcommand{\etal}{%
-	\@ifnextchar{.}{\abbrevFont{et~al}}%
-	        {\abbrevFont{et al}.\xspace}%
+	\@ifnextchar{.}{\ETAL}%
+		{\abbrevFont{\ETAL}.\xspace}%
 }%
 \makeatother