I actually experience the same issue, but with macros that take no arguments as well as with macros that do take arguments.
Charles On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:17 AM, James Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On Dec 2, 2008, at 5:49 AM, Stefan Schimanski wrote: > > >> Am 01.12.2008 um 18:59 schrieb James Sutherland: >> >> I have a parent document where I have defined macros. In the child >>> document, I have used the macro. >>> >>> The compiled output (either from the child, or the parent), is fine. >>> However, the LyX preview for the equations using macros is not correct. >>> The macros are not expanded when the preview is generated. >>> >>> I thought that this was supported in LyX 1.6 (macros defined in parent, >>> used in child). Am I mistaken? >>> >> >> No, the preview does not support that (yet). I remember that I looked into >> this problem. At that time there was a technical reason that this very hard >> to implement, although I do not remember anymore why. >> >> Stefan >> > > I tried the test cases on the wiki page ( > http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Macros#toc10) and these macros expand > appropriately. The only difference between the test case on the wiki page > and the problem I am seeing is the use of parameters in the macros. The > test macros from the wiki page do not involve parameters while the ones I am > using do involve parameters. > > Is this going to be fixed in 1.6.1? This seems like an unfortunate > limitation - previews not working for macros involving parameters... > > James >
