GameTeX, which has been using macros for gender-neutral LARP writing for years (and presumably Template before that), uses they/them/their/theirs. This has the advantage of people being able to remember them, and the disadvantage of requiring confusing verb forms. For example, you'd need to write "\They{} wants more money." because that will evaluate to something like "She wants more money." but it's easy to accidentally write "\They{} want more money." because that's what'd be grammatical without the macro substitution.
I don't really have a better suggestion, though. I vaguely like the version of Spivak that's just forms of they with the "th" removed, so "\Ey{} wants more money.", because its relatively easy to remember, but it's hard enough in my experience to get non-programmer-types to use pronoun macros at all, and I feel like that'd be a harder sell for most people.
I expect you'll eventually want to add various not-really-pronoun things as well, so people can replace words like "wife" and "sister" and "aunt" and so on with appropriate macros.
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Date: 2016-01-12 10:57 pm (UTC)I don't really have a better suggestion, though. I vaguely like the version of Spivak that's just forms of they with the "th" removed, so "\Ey{} wants more money.", because its relatively easy to remember, but it's hard enough in my experience to get non-programmer-types to use pronoun macros at all, and I feel like that'd be a harder sell for most people.
I expect you'll eventually want to add various not-really-pronoun things as well, so people can replace words like "wife" and "sister" and "aunt" and so on with appropriate macros.