Hi all, All my books contain, interspersed throughout regular text, boxes breaking out special stuff. The boxes are centered and have slightly narrower margins than the rest of the text. Each box has a large box title on the top line, and the text of the message to the reader in the rest of the box. Titles are often things like NOTE, TIP, WARNING, CAUTION, but often are completely ad-hock text, which is why I can't simply create an environment for each.
Ideally title and text would go in a minipage, which I can make shaded. In fact, I could do that by setting the title text with ERT, and then putting the box text in a box environment which prints the title (which was declared in ERT) before printing the text. The trouble with that approach is the title won't be seen in the LyX GUI, which confuses me as an author. Another approach is to use an environment that has an argument. However, I know of no way that LyX can pass an arbitrary argument (as opposed to one fixed within the LyX environment declaration) to the LaTeX environment. What I'd REALLY like is a way to make an environment, call it \boxtitle, that does nothing but use any text within that environment to set a variable. Then the box environment, call it \box, would simply turn that text into a title within a minipage. Meanwhile, within LyX itself, \boxtitle (actually the LyX environment that calls it), would look like just another environemnt and show up perfectly in LyX. So does anyone know a way to create a LaTeX environment that, instead of printing the text it's applied to, sets a variable with the text it's applied to? If not, does anyone know another way to do what I need to do? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
