On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 04:14:55PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 06:15:20PM -0500, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > Lyx looks promising but I want do some stuff that isn't on the menus.
> > For example, I'd like to create a command like this (simplified):
> >
> > \newcommand{\techword}[1]{\emph{#1}}
> >
> > However, lyx just doesn't get it:
> >
> > LyX: Unknown token `\techword{Highlighted}'. Inserting as text. [around
> > line 72 of file ~/.fun/en.lyx]
>
> Uh... Did you put that first command in the LaTeX preamble
Yes:
\textclass book
\begin_preamble
\newcommand{\techword}[1]{\emph{#1}}
\end_preamble
\language default
> or put it in TeX/LaTeX mode?
How? I see a "Toggle TeX Style" button, but it's just formatting (red
typewritter), no?
> > So what's the advantage over xemacs? Maybe I can use lyx to prototype
> > latex to cut & paste into my emacs buffer? It doesn't make sense. Why
> > did you folks go to all the trouble of creating a beautiful graphical
> > editor? Please tell me I'm missing something.
>
> You are probably missing something. Did you look at the LyX web pages?
> (http://www.lyx.org) Did you read any of the online docs? (The Help menu)
Yes, actually I spent a few hours going through the docs. Actually, I
found eplain:
http://www.cs.uakron.edu/~adam/eplain.html
So I think I'm going to use that. I am comfortable programming at a
low-level. Or do you feel that I'd be better off with lyx? If so, why?
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