My original intention to use:

/tar [target=Kaiya,nodead,exists] [target=Ðeceased,nodead,exists] [target=Ælures,nodead,exists]
/follow

or

/follow [target=Kaiya,nodead,exists] [target=Ðeceased,nodead,exists] [target=Ælures,nodead,exists]

and other such like macros, was to allow me to completely remove the focus based friendly targeting from my game play.. the reason is that I would like to be able to use focus purely for either outside party support or enemy CC/interrupts, or maintain single target dps while being able to select different targets for spothealing etc.
so whilst party1 has made this possible for me in a PvE environment, in BG pvp i would encounter follow and targeting issues.

I get the feeling I will have to resign myself to using actual player names to manage this, but unfortunately they take up a lot of space, and as I was asking originally, for some reason this one doesn't work with my last character.. (trying to figure out why atm)

is there anyway to shorten the above conditions for finding players? ie

instead of:

/follow [target=Kaiya,nodead,exists] [target=Ðeceased,nodead,exists] [target=Ælures,nodead,exists]


writing

/follow [target=Kaiya;Ðeceased;Ælures,nodead,exists]