On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:07:54AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Charles de Miramon wrote: > > I think that what is needed is a standard mechanism to enter in a friendly > > GUI way structured information in LyX like titlepages, frames in > > beamer,multiple choice questions, etc. The gui form would be stored in the > > layout and when you create a new beaamer frame (title page, multiple choixe > > entry) the ui form would be displayed and you could enter title, subtitle, > > etc... > > > > LyX is limited by the dropdown style list copied from wordprocesssors that > > works for paragraph formatting but not for structured information. > > > An idea: > What if the .layout could specify document-specific insets? > They would be listed on the insert menu, and show up > in the GUI as boxes with whatever caption the .layout > specifies. The .layout should also specify latex code to be > generated, and enforce some structure with simple rules > about how they nest.
We already have that: charstyles, which are however pretty limited. But they could be extended (under a different name probably, "style insets"?) > Could something like that do the trick for beamer? (I haven't > used beamer myself . . .) Would be a partial solution at best. We also need optarg insets extended to accept < > as delimiters instead of [ ] . And then a dialog, definable from the .layout file, for picking the various 1- etc strings. (this feature would also help implementing Carlisle's enumerate extension more generally.) > Helge Hafting - Martin
