On 2013-01-26, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Ben M. <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi! I have a friend who saw me using LyX, and decided to try it. She
>> imported one of her papers with a collaborator. They use shortcuts like \ba
>> for \begin{align*}. Consequently, all her arrays show up with ERT. Is
>> there any hope of getting LyX to recognize such shortcuts, and then to use
>> them? (She wants to continue using the macros to avoid inconveniencing her
>> collaborators.)
> I think there are two issues here:
> 1. Importing
> 2. Using (and exporting)
> Issue 1 seems like a valid request to me and could be filed as an
> enhancement request here: http://www.lyx.org/trac
I don't think hardcoding things like \ba -> \begin{align*} is sensible.
Rather, such local customizations should be made known to tex2lyx in a
configuration file. AFAIK, there is already some sort of support in
tex2lyx for such cases.
> Issue 2 is understandable but I doubt that this will be implemented.
> This is just my personal guess though. You are welcome to file this
> enhancement request also.
Using and exporting could in principle be achieved with a custom layout.
However, using macros instead of environments might be tricky.
Günter
