On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 2:41 PM Helge Hafting <helge.haft...@ntnu.no> wrote: > > > > I have a large document where I have many lines that are only > > > > @@ > > > > Now, I want to insert all lines between two consecutive lines of @@ > > into a minipage. Can one do that automatically and not one by one? > > Not to my knowledge, no. > > Advanced search & replace lets you search for and/or replace stuff that > isn't only normal text. So you can replace an image with another. You > can search for & replace math formulas. You may also replace "@@" with a > minipage. > > But if I understand correctly, you want to search for: > > @@ > > some > > lines > > @@ > > and have it replaced with: > > ---start minipage-- > > some > > lines > > ---end minipage-- > > > And you want this to happen several times through your document, where > the exact contents of "some lines" vary. This is not possible. You may > only search for fixed content, not variable. So you can search for > > @@ > > some > > lines > > @@ > > But such a search will only match exactly, you can't get it to also match > > @@ > > other > > lines > > @@ > > And I guess that is what you wanted? > > > LyX lets you mark "some lines", you can then Insert->Box->Simple Frame > and get your lines inside a minipage. And then repeat this mark & insert > operation for all other occurences. > > If you want to automate this, consider taking advantage of the fact that > a LyX file is a kind of text file. Software that deals with text (sed, > awk, or many others) may be able to do what you want. And if there are > hundreds of cases, writing a one-off program to do this may pay off. > (Pay off in that it may be faster than editing it all by hand.) > Otherwise, or if you aren't into programming, just edit manually.
Thanks, Helge. Indeed, I want to automate the procedure you describe in your penultimate paragraph. And, as you suggest, I will try to accomplish that by writing a program, as I have dozens of minipages to insert. Paul
