Hi Stefan, as I replied previously I think the way you are enhancng LyX for macros is brilliant. The problem is I do not see a single one of your enhancements in LyX 1.5x. When can we expect to see your creativity incorporated into the product????
Regards Mark Kortink e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: 0419-250-403 -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Schimanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 11 June 2007 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Suggested improvements for LyX macros Please take a look at my new macro implementation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68Gys4rp3u4 Make it fullscreen while watching to see what's going on. Some points you give should be solved by that. Stefan Am 11.06.2007 um 06:36 schrieb Mark Kortink: > Hi > > Below are some suggestions for improving macros in LyX. As a user > it has > taken many hours of going through the poor user documentation and > various > LaTeX manuals and editors trying to figure out how to get them > working and > then why they don't work, very frustrating! Hopefully these > suggestions can > be incorporated into some release because I have given up on macros > even > though I eventually got them working and they would be extremely > useful if > they worked in such a way to make life easier, even working in a > simple way > would be better.. > > 1. In the user guide: > - do not use the name "macro" or "macrowarg" as the example macro > names, > guaranteed to confuse. > - show all the steps in sequence and what it looks like on screen, > don't > give examples of output without showing the input. Step 1, enter the > "math-macro mname n" in the minibuffer then step 2, type the LaTeX > defs into > the blue boxes which defines the macros so it can be used then step > 3, use > it over and over by going into math mode and typing \mname and > entering the > argument values after the m: placeholders. You get the idea. > - I found after much pain that you can't put #n, you have to escape > it like > \#n, this is not documented and should not be the case anyhow, #n > is the > standard. > > 2. Fix the way they work and look on screen > - When values have been supplied for the argument display the result > WYSIWYM. When the user clicks on the macro to edit its values > revert back to > edit mode with the arguments lists 1:, 2:, etc as now. > > 3. The big one, allow \newcommand and \DeclareMathOperator to be > defined in > the preamble, even if you have to follow some LyX conventions, they > need to > be able to be imported from a file. > > Regards > > Mark Kortink > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > p: 0419-250-403 >
