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Lyx version 1.4.3 On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:26 AM, anu saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for taking the time out . Please find a file attached .You wrote > '*Put the cursor in the first of the boxes, and type: \#1\times\#1, just > as written, then a space. > > You should then see the second shot* .' > I do not get the second shot on typing \#1\times\#1 and then a space > Please note I have done this in Lyx version 1.4.3 > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:03 PM, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> anu saxena wrote: >> >>> Hi Richard >>> Once only I got four boxes as displayed in the guide and it worked . >>> Every other time when I got just two boxes (Guide shows four boxes ) I tried >>> just what you have written and that is what the guide also says, nothing >>> happened . >>> >>> Oh, I see what you mean about the four boxes. I think. Once a macro with >> three arguments has been properly defined and then you use it, you'll get >> the four boxes: One that shows your formula, and one for each argument. But >> the macro definition itself will show only two, as I said. >> >> But what do you mean "nothing happened"? When did nothing happen? >> >> Maybe we should start with a simple case. Do this. Exactly. >> >> Alt-x to open the mini-buffer >> Type: math-macro test 1, return. >> >> You should see the first screenshot below. >> >> Put the cursor in the first of the boxes, and type: \#1\times\#1, just as >> written, then a space. >> >> You should then see the second shot. >> >> Now enter a new line, type Ctrl-M to get a math formula, and type: \test >> >> You should now see screenshot three. >> >> Now you can enter an argument in the argument box. Type: \alpha, then a >> space. >> >> Screenshot four shows the result. >> >> Richard >> >> PS Please reply to the list in case others are following the thread. >> >> Thanks >>> anu >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:29 AM, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >>> >>> anu saxena schrieb: >>> >>> I am trying to create a math macro as described in the >>> User's guide of the >>> documentation . when I execute the command math-macro name >>> 3 in the >>> mini-buffer I do not get four red boxes instead I get only >>> two . >>> >>> You shouldn't get four boxes, just the two. Then you enter the >>> formula you want in the first box. Use "\#n" for the nth argument >>> of the macro. (You won't see the "\", but it's need to signal to >>> LyX that what follows isn't a literal "#".) You can optionally >>> enter something else to be displayed in LyX in the second box, if >>> the thing in the first is too complicated and you don't need to >>> see it. Usually, you just leave the second box empty, in which >>> case LyX displays what is in the first box. >>> >>> Richard >>> >>> >>> >> >
