It is weird. I get preview of I open a new standard LaTeX book document. Hm… need to experiment more…
--- With best regards/hilsen Bernt Lie, professor University College of Southeast Norway www.usn.no From: Jürgen Lange<mailto:juergen.la...@unitybox.de> Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 19:25 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org<mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Subject: Re: LyX & mhchem package? Your are right. mhchem is also available in math mode. I can confirm, that there is no preview. Regards Am 09.08.2016, 18:57 Uhr, schrieb Bernt Lie Thanks for comment. I’m still confused: Ø This has nothing to do with the math mode. It must have something to do with math mode!?! · The feature is described in LyX’s Math Help document (section 20 of LyX’s detailed Math manual for LyX v. 2.2.x) · As far as I can see, LyX’s Math Help document has *not* included the statement you suggest in its Preamble. Instead, it has specified “Load automatically” package “mhchem” under “Math Options” in the Document Settings. · In the Math Help document, it is stated “After inserting \ce to a formula a new blue box appears where chemical formulas can be inserted in an intuitive way”. I assume that “to a formula” refers to a math formula??! · In Martin Hensel’s document “The mhchem Bundle” dated August 8, 2016, he states about his package that “This works in text mode (even in headings) and in math mode.” By playing around with my document, it seems like the chemical expressions are correctly typeset in the pdf file both if I insert the \ce expressions in TeX code, and in math mode. However, my *problem* is that in *my* document, the chemical formulas do not *preview* within LyX, while in LyX’s Math Help document, the correct typesetting seems to *preview* within LyX. · WHY this difference? · (Could it be that my document is based on LaTeX Book style, while LyX’s documentation uses KOMA-script document styles??) -Bernt L.
