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? Or does someone have a different interface to suggest? Scott
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