On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:02:35PM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: > If the macros should be used for a whole bunch of documents, they could be > saved in a template file and would be available for all documents using this > template.
I think macros are a particularly awkward and ugly way to do semantic mark up of normal text within LyX. Why bother ? Do you see a problem in the solution I have been advocating ? To a large degree such macro support is orthogonal, I think, and could be considered a "power user feature". We simply cannot force the user to learn arcane runes like \textbf and the like Under the hood is a different matter of course regards john -- "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." - Aristotle