On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 02:18:09PM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
On 6/10/23 04:30, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 07:46:28PM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
On 6/9/23 19:39, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
On 6/9/23 04:24, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
I often find myself of wanting to define a command in a module's
preamble, and I want to define a corresponding LyX math macro to
*display* it nicely in the LyX display; but I don't want the
\global\long\def\mymacro that comes along with it. Is there a way to
tell LyX that I already defined the command and I don't want the
macro to define it?
Perhaps a different use case is that I might want to display a
built-in LaTeX definition (or one in a package) differently, but I
don't want to redefine it.
No, I don't think that's possible. I've had occasion to want something
similar---e.g., some macro is defined in some package, but LyX does not
handle it natively, and I'd like to see decent display. My usual
strategy is just to define a 'dummy' macro the way you have there and
use that.
Actually, come to think of it, we have all kinds of 'LyX only' definitions in
lib/symbols. That can be modified locally. But those do not seem to take
arguments.
Thanks, Riki.
If I were to implement this "don't define in LaTeX" in LyX, would it be
reasonable to put it in the context menu of the math macro as a toggle?
Yes, that's how I'd do it. It's probably pretty simple, really.
I think it would not even be necessary a context menu entry. It would
suffice leaving empty the TeX part of the macro and only filling in the
LyX part. In this case the macro simly would not be written in the output.
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Enrico
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