On 28 Mar 2003, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Christian" == Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Christian> I was trying to get 'LyX' output nicely (as \LaTeX) but it
> Christian> doesn't work for me in 1.3.1cvs. Has this been removed or
> Christian> something?
>
> Just type "LyX", and \LyX will be (1) defined in preamble and (2) used
> in the latex output. The same holds for LaTeX=>\LaTeX and
> LaTeX2e=>\LaTeXe.
Is this documented? (if not, I can add it to my growing queue of things to
bugzilla).
For the documentation:
I played with it a bit, and to insert "LyX" as normal, {LyX} in ERT works.
To force the definition of the \LyX{}-command, you can add the text LyX in
a Comment environment.
I'm not sure what I think about this though from UI point of view. For
one, it's far from obvious that "LyX" will translate this way in the
output...
I can imagine scratching my head about this, wondering why it happens.
> There are plans (I mean just idle talks) in the future to remove
> support for this automatic transliteration and use a proper inset
> instead.
Hmm.. maybe it really should be solved in a more general
context.. connected to text macros, character styles or something?
The general case would need settings for defining the translation table.
Actually... this is pretty close to a special kind of text macro, but I
guess it needs a visual feedback indicating the words that will be
translated upon output.
This could actually be great for getting a consistent style for certain
words (or phrases if you allow hard spaces?). In my thesis, I've defined a
\matlab{} command which translates into MATLAB with some formatting and I
can see how the automatic translation would be useful here...
(MATLAB is a numerical software)
On the other hand... you loose control over what is happening (it's
getting more Word:ish). Say for instance that you've already written your
document with "matlab" in several places, and in some of the places you
don't want the translation...
/Christian
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