On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:37:46AM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote:

> > > If the macros should be used for a whole bunch of documents, they could be
> > > saved in a template file ...
> >
> > 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 ?
> 
> Yes, missing flexibility.
> 
> - *.layout file creating is at least as power-userish as macro creating. If
>    lyx supported macros, they would be creatable within a LyX GUI.

I'm not talking about touching .layout. This is yet again something
different. I am talking about the UI per-document settings I outlined
earlier.

> - I have to interact with colleagues that use plain latex. Something like
>    \newcommand{\LiTa}{LiTao$_3$} is quite common there. It would be nice to
>    have it supported in LyX.   

Right. This is really a different thing to character styles. It should
probable be supported as well though.

regards
john
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