Re: using native 'math macros' as 'text macros'

2014-01-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2014-01-22, Liviu Andronic wrote: So, is it a good or bad idea to use math macros to emulate text macros? Is there a nicer approach? IMO, it is a bad idea. Math macros are for mathematical typesetting (and even then not the cleanest LaTeX code results). The text alternative to math macros

Re: using native 'math macros' as 'text macros'

2014-01-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net wrote: On 2014-01-22, Liviu Andronic wrote: So, is it a good or bad idea to use math macros to emulate text macros? Is there a nicer approach? IMO, it is a bad idea. Math macros are for mathematical typesetting (and even

Re: using native 'math macros' as 'text macros'

2014-01-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2014-01-22, Liviu Andronic wrote: So, is it a good or bad idea to use math macros to emulate text macros? Is there a nicer approach? IMO, it is a bad idea. Math macros are for mathematical typesetting (and even then not the cleanest LaTeX code results). The text alternative to math macros

Re: using native 'math macros' as 'text macros'

2014-01-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net wrote: On 2014-01-22, Liviu Andronic wrote: So, is it a good or bad idea to use math macros to emulate text macros? Is there a nicer approach? IMO, it is a bad idea. Math macros are for mathematical typesetting (and even

Re: using native 'math macros' as 'text macros'

2014-01-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2014-01-22, Liviu Andronic wrote: > So, is it a good or bad idea to use math macros to emulate text > macros? Is there a nicer approach? IMO, it is a bad idea. "Math macros" are for mathematical typesetting (and even then not the cleanest LaTeX code results). The text alternative to "math

Re: using native 'math macros' as 'text macros'

2014-01-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2014-01-22, Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> So, is it a good or bad idea to use math macros to emulate text >> macros? Is there a nicer approach? > > IMO, it is a bad idea. "Math macros" are for mathematical typesetting

using native 'math macros' as 'text macros'

2014-01-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all, I would like to use in my LyX documents something that would resemble text macros. I'm aware of http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1704 and of solutions such as http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12747/keeping-the-names-of-things-consistent-in-lyx , but I'm wondering if the existing

using native 'math macros' as 'text macros'

2014-01-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all, I would like to use in my LyX documents something that would resemble text macros. I'm aware of http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1704 and of solutions such as http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12747/keeping-the-names-of-things-consistent-in-lyx , but I'm wondering if the existing

using native 'math macros' as 'text macros'

2014-01-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all, I would like to use in my LyX documents something that would resemble "text macros". I'm aware of http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1704 and of solutions such as http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12747/keeping-the-names-of-things-consistent-in-lyx , but I'm wondering if the existing