General ⇒ \newcommand in \input'ed file?

[mike-klemin]

I have a "preamble.tex" file where I define some things and couple of \newcommands, but it looks like master document (which has \input{preabmle}) does not see definition of my newcommand, but other things are apply successfully like \usepackage{}.

if there any possibility to make it working? I making various docs and I would like

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Mike-Klemin,

it's possible. It's even the expected behavior. They won't be seen if they are defined within a group or environment. Just show example code, what you are doing which doesn't work.

Stefan

[mike-klemin]

Hello Stefan!
I feel so dumb...

The problem was in encoding, the preamble was encoded differently, and I had these extra characters in \newcommand
It was so hard to figure for me...I using Lyx 1.6 and it giving very little debug options.
I tried to reproduce it in texMaker and, it worked just fine (since for texmaker both preamble and master were in same encoding as I made them from scratch) and after reading your post that it supposed to be working, and my texmaker experience.. I got a clue of what the hell happening

Edit: yes, the problem was with encoding, by some strange reason Lyx default encoding for Cyrillic is KOI8-R and not UTF-8, so I had my main master file in KOI8-R and tried to \input UTF-8 preamble, which caused some strange errors, nature of which I just couldn't get, because I just made couple of copy/paste...
Now everything works as supposed.

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