>In math mode, when I select the menu item for the greek alpha >character, or when I type \alpha within the inline equation box and >then press TAB, how does lyx render this to the character?
You should be somewhat clearer what you mean with 'render'. The general story is that each keypress will fire a LFUN_SELF_INSERT. This will be handled by InsetMathNest::dispatch() and dispatch will call InsetMathNest::interpretChar(). When you have typed '\alpha' and you press space, interpretChar() will call cur.macroModeClose() which will 'finish' the macro. Cursor::macroModeClose() then creates a new Inset with the line: MathAtom atom = createInsetMath(name); and this is inserted into the formula by plainInsert(atom); Is this what you wanted to know ? Are you implementing something useful ? P.S. This sounds like it is more appropriate at the developers' list. Vincent
