Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> Update:
> I have found that my current examples for "macros that are lost"
> are all explained (and fixed) by movement between the preamble and
> the document. That is, at some point they moved above the
> \begin{document} in the latex, I would guess I did that manually.
> So this is not strictly a round trip issue, and I think I'm
> dropping it for now. For now I closed the bug report I'd started
> putting together.
>
> Another issue is whether the location of a command definition
> before or after the \begin{document} should make a difference to
> it becoming a macro; I would guess not, but I don't know if anyone
> cares. As it is parse_text calls is_macro, and Preamble.cpp does
> not seem to, so that's not a mystery.
The location of the macro definition can make a big difference (e.g. if
packages are loaded afterwards). Since LyX writes the defintions of math
macros aftre the preamble, tex2lyx tries only translate those into math
macros.
Georg
