Comment 40 for bug 375323

I second this, I remain stuck on pre Cairo versions of inkscape. For the adjustments I needed to do for my PhD thesis the current options of switching back to inkscape for every minor change in notation would have been torturous and added a few days to my writing at least. As I have hundreds of figures the additional files are a nuissance (though not prohibitive).

I have no time to try this now, but as a new workflow would it be possible to define macros in your main tex file and have inkscapes tex file call these macros?

E.g. have the latex in the svg be \water and then call it as

\begin{figure}
   \centering
   \newcommand{\water}{H$_2$O}
   \def\svgwidth{\columnwidth} % sets the image width, this is optional
   \input{image.pdf_tex}
\end{figure}