diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 8b75fdd5b..44f29b31b 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -122,6 +122,18 @@ mu-referencing style to run the optimization.
   `plot(ci, Cc)` which will only plot the variable `Cc` that you
   summarized even if you also summarized `eff` (for instance).
 
+- When the rxode2 ui is a compressed ui object, you can modify the ini
+  block with `$ini <-` or modify the model block with `$model <-`.
+  These are equivalent to `ini(model) <-` and `model(model) <-`,
+  respectively. Otherwise, the object is added to the user defined
+  components in the function (ie `$meta`).  When the object is
+  uncompressed, it simply assigns it to the environment instead (just
+  like before).
+
+- When printing meta information that happens to be a `lotri`
+  compatible matrix, use `lotri` to express it instead of the default
+  R expression.
+
 ## Internal new features
 
 - Add `as.model()` for list expressions, which implies `model(ui) <-
diff --git a/R/rxUiGet.R b/R/rxUiGet.R
index af43f75cd..0ee1149d2 100644
--- a/R/rxUiGet.R
+++ b/R/rxUiGet.R
@@ -185,7 +185,22 @@ rxUiGet.funPrint <- function(x, ...) {
   .ret <- vector("list", length(.ls) + ifelse(.hasIni, 3, 2))
   .ret[[1]] <- quote(`{`)
   for (.i in seq_along(.ls)) {
-    .ret[[.i + 1]] <- eval(parse(text=paste("quote(", .ls[.i], "<-", deparse1(.x$meta[[.ls[.i]]]), ")")))
+    .var <- .ls[.i]
+    .val <- .x$meta[[.ls[.i]]]
+    .isLotri <- FALSE
+    if (checkmate::checkMatrix(.val, any.missing=FALSE, row.names="strict", col.names="strict")) {
+      .dn <- dimnames(.val)
+      if (identical(.dn[[1]], .dn[[2]]) && isSymmetric(.val)) {
+        class(.val) <- c("lotriFix", class(.val))
+        .val <- as.expression(.val)
+        .val <- bquote(.(str2lang(.var)) <- .(.val))
+        .ret[[.i + 1]] <- .val
+        .isLotri <- TRUE
+      }
+    }
+    if (!.isLotri){
+      .ret[[.i + 1]] <- eval(parse(text=paste("quote(", .var, "<-", deparse1(.val), ")")))
+    }
   }
   .theta <- x$theta
   .omega <- x$omega