On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:43:49AM +0000, Bernt Lie wrote: > Preliminaries: I use Windows 10 with LyX 2.2.1. > > I need to have some symbol to close Examples. Here is what I do: > > * I change the first paragraph in an example from Standard to > Example. This allows me to number the example, and I can insert a > marker/label so that I can refer to the example. > > * I choose to let the subsequent paragraphs within the example be > standard paragraphs, so that I am not limited by the layout constraints > within theorem-like elements. > > * I then need some symbol to indicate the end of an example (I would > need that anyway, because LyX seems to typeset example "body text" in roman > font, contrary to the default of "old LaTeX" - personally, I welcome this, > because example text is often lengthy, and it looks bad with a lengthy text > in italic...) > > * OK - the symbol I have chosen to close the example is: "Horizontal > fill" + math symbol "\blacktriangle". This will push a black (upward > pointing) triangle to the right margin. The triangle is supposed to point > into the example... > > * Is there a way that I can give a *name* to this combination of > "Horizontal fill" + "black triangle", so that I can easily insert it? I'd > like to call it "endex" (end-of-example), or something like that. How can I > insert this "user defined" combination ("fragment") into the LyX document > with a simple keyboard short-cut?
This link might be useful for figuring out how to automate things that you usually do with the GUI: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/208510/lyx-commands-to-insert-wysiwyg-horizontal-line-for-keyboard-shortcut/208531#208531 Then you can do them all together with "command-sequence". Scott
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