Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-21 Thread Ipacs Péter
Richard, Paul, Thanks for the quick reply. It seems I have to read and experiment much more on this matter. I've just found some suggestions around the acronym package. While the acronym package does not fulfill the ultimate goal it might partially serve my actual needs. The best would be the

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-21 Thread Ipacs Péter
Richard, Paul, Thanks for the quick reply. It seems I have to read and experiment much more on this matter. I've just found some suggestions around the acronym package. While the acronym package does not fulfill the ultimate goal it might partially serve my actual needs. The best would be the

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-21 Thread Ipacs Péter
Richard, Paul, Thanks for the quick reply. It seems I have to read and experiment much more on this matter. I've just found some suggestions around the acronym package. While the acronym package does not fulfill the ultimate goal it might partially serve my actual needs. The best would be the

question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Ipacs Péter
Hi Guys, Forgive me if my question is newbie but I'm indeed a newbie both to latex and to Lyx as well.I was trying to use some supported way to highlight abbreviations in a Lyx document but I found no good way so far. I also did the standard drill of looking through forums etc. without any luck.

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Paul Rubin
What you have in mind with automatic substitution would be a macro. LyX 1.6.x does not support macros directly; you can create them in the preamble if you know how to write LaTeX code. My impression is that LyX 2.0 will have a macro capability. As an alternative hand-coding macros in LaTeX, you

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/20/2010 08:55 AM, Ipacs Péter wrote: Hi Guys, Forgive me if my question is newbie but I'm indeed a newbie both to latex and to Lyx as well.I was trying to use some supported way to highlight abbreviations in a Lyx document but I found no good way so far. I also did the standard drill

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/20/2010 11:16 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: My impression is that LyX 2.0 will have a macro capability. Beyond the math macro stuff we already have, no, unfortunately. Richard

question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Ipacs Péter
Hi Guys, Forgive me if my question is newbie but I'm indeed a newbie both to latex and to Lyx as well.I was trying to use some supported way to highlight abbreviations in a Lyx document but I found no good way so far. I also did the standard drill of looking through forums etc. without any luck.

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Paul Rubin
What you have in mind with automatic substitution would be a macro. LyX 1.6.x does not support macros directly; you can create them in the preamble if you know how to write LaTeX code. My impression is that LyX 2.0 will have a macro capability. As an alternative hand-coding macros in LaTeX, you

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/20/2010 08:55 AM, Ipacs Péter wrote: Hi Guys, Forgive me if my question is newbie but I'm indeed a newbie both to latex and to Lyx as well.I was trying to use some supported way to highlight abbreviations in a Lyx document but I found no good way so far. I also did the standard drill

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/20/2010 11:16 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: My impression is that LyX 2.0 will have a macro capability. Beyond the math macro stuff we already have, no, unfortunately. Richard

question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Ipacs Péter
Hi Guys, Forgive me if my question is newbie but I'm indeed a newbie both to latex and to Lyx as well.I was trying to use some supported way to highlight abbreviations in a Lyx document but I found no good way so far. I also did the standard drill of looking through forums etc. without any luck.

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Paul Rubin
What you have in mind with automatic substitution would be a macro. LyX 1.6.x does not support macros directly; you can create them in the preamble if you know how to write LaTeX code. My impression is that LyX 2.0 will have a macro capability. As an alternative hand-coding macros in LaTeX, you

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/20/2010 08:55 AM, Ipacs Péter wrote: Hi Guys, Forgive me if my question is newbie but I'm indeed a newbie both to latex and to Lyx as well.I was trying to use some supported way to highlight abbreviations in a Lyx document but I found no good way so far. I also did the standard drill

Re: question about styling/highlighting abbreaviations

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/20/2010 11:16 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: My impression is that LyX 2.0 will have a macro capability. Beyond the math macro stuff we already have, no, unfortunately. Richard