A keyboard shortcut?

porton · Post by **porton** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 12:16 am

I need to type \mathfrak{A} often. How to reduce typing when typing it?

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Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 11:52 am

To save typing you could define a macro in your document preamble:

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\newcommand*{\ma}{\mathfrak{A}}

The you just need to type \ma. And you could change the definition at any time, valid for the whole document.

Perhaps there are programmable LyX shortcuts, I just don't have it here right now.

Stefan

porton · Post by **porton** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 3:09 pm

This way I would see "\ma" not the symbol in the formula in the LyX editor. This is certainly not what I want.

StarValkyrie · Post by **StarValkyrie** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 8:40 pm

You can program your own shortcut in LyX by going to Tools>Preferences>Editing>Shortcuts and clicking the New button. This page will help you with the syntax.

Post by **scottkosty** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:26 am

porton wrote:This way I would see "\ma" not the symbol in the formula in the LyX editor. This is certainly not what I want.

You can also use math macros in LyX. Insert > Math > Macro. Here you can control both the LaTeX and the LyX output.

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