Thomas Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | For my own documents i am using a file with a lot of \newcommand's | like | \newcommand{\company} [1] {\textbf{#1}}
yes... | and then | \newcommand{\redhat} {\company{RedHat}\xspace} but this would be a combination of what I call (static) "abbreviations" and character styles. | so what I get are two things. First a Character style \company and | an acronym \redhat, nahh... redhat is not an acronym. PINE is an acronym (a recursive acronym even ... Pine Is Not Elm) | a better example should be DNA for | Desoxyribonucleinacid :). | This could be placed somwhere in the ~/.lyx path or the user LaTeX | path and then nested to a character pulldown menu and a shorttag | pulldown menu in LyX. To have these defined as LaTeX (be it character styles, acronyms or abbreviation), is something I would be against. I do not want LyX to be any more (La)TeX specific than it already is. To be able to import these kind of definitions might be good though. | The only problem is that this tags will not be used for a html | output with pdflatex (up to now). We need to translate them into some LyX specific format. | May be a standalone preamble file could be an other way to get this | behaviour. Then the files could be packed into a tgz file | including the original lyx file and the preamble file. Naahh... not unless we have to. | Another | benefit would be to use a user customizable editor for the | preamble. To my opinion the pramble window is at least a painfull | thing. :) (German: Ich finde, dass Arbeiten mit dem Präambel | Fenster ist zumindestens als schmerzhaft zu bezeichnen.) Abbrevs, acronyms and character styles will not be settable from the preamble... unless you also use ERT of course... -- Lgb