VI/NROFF symbolics question

[fontana at mdiva1.uucp]

I am a IBM SCRIPT and GGML user.  I need to know how to
do a symbolic reference in VI and NROFF. (i.e. I want to
be able to define a table of symbolic strings and their
expanded names or string.  Then I want to only type the
symbolics in the text and have the system input the expanded
names when I run off the text.)

Any helpful hints would be appreciated.