Hi, all...
Sorry to be posting here every day or so, but I've come across
something that does not seem to work as documented. (It doesn't seem to work
at all!) I read with interest the section in the User Guide on math macros.
It seemed to me that this would allow me to define a macro,
Hello,
so, you do "M-x msol" , then write a 'm' with a dot, then use,
in math-mode, the macro '\msol', which appears fine on the screen,
but LaTeX won't compile? Strange indeed.
Could you create a short file, with e.g. just the macro definition
and an instance of it, check whether LaTeX s
John Ya-ya wrote:
>
> It seemed to me that this would allow me to define a macro, say "msol", to save
> me from having to type a lot when I want to insert the M-with-subscripted-odot
> that represents a "solar mass". Ok, I defined the macro as directed, and went
> into a math box and typed "\mso
On 21-Apr-99 Etienne Grossmann wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> so, you do "M-x msol" , then write a 'm' with a dot, then use,
> in math-mode, the macro '\msol', which appears fine on the screen,
> but LaTeX won't compile? Strange indeed.
Exactly. Well, not exactly -- "M-x math-macro msol",
Hello again,
indeed, LyX "sees" all the macros that have been defined in all
its open documents (and apparently in those it has closed too).
Sorry for not having thought about that ...
Etienne
> "John" == John Ya-ya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> I did that and it works. However, in so doing I was
John> inspired to try changing the *Style* of the line on which I had
John> defined the macro, and I discovered something. A math macro
John> must be defined using the "Stand
On 21-Apr-99 Etienne Grossmann wrote:
> indeed, LyX "sees" all the macros that have been defined in all
> its open documents (and apparently in those it has closed too).
>
> Sorry for not having thought about that ...
That's ok -- now that it is known, it can be fixed! :) It might
