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 -- "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." - Aristotle