On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:05:07PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I defined a few latex macros like
>
> \newcommand{\SRx}[1]{\hyperref[headsrx#1
> {\MakeUppercase{sr}x\_\MakeTextUppercase{#1}}}
>
> which save some typing effort and allow reformatting of all SRx at a later
> point in time.
>
> If this would be a complete paragraph, LyX support would be excellent by
> defining a new .layout file.
>
Yes. That is a great way of using custom environments.
> But these macros are used within a paragraph. So far I have found nothing
> else
> than using ERT e.g. \SQx{abc} which is kind of ugly. Ideally I would like to
> do some "special inserts SRx" which also should be bindable to a key. Now I
> am wondering
>
> -> Did I just not find out how to do that in in LyX, but it is already
> available? Kind of unlikely, I asked before on lyx-users:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users%40lists.lyx.org/msg40302.html
>
> -> Lyx 1.3.5 can't do that but it is impemented in a later version
>
> -> Nobody thought so far that is useful, but it in fact is and I should open
> a
> wishlist item bug report
>
Search the archives for "text styles". Text styles are not finished yet, and
probably won't be for lyx 1.4. Beyt they do what you want:
You can define new text styles (in addition to basic ones like "bold")
and apply them over whatever selections you make.
> -> Is that a completely wrong approach for what I want to achieve and the
> feature would be completely useless.
No - this is very useful. And there is a trick for getting limited text
style functionality today. It is a hack:
Lyx support colors, but many documents doesn't use them all. Each
color you don't use can be redefined in the preamble to do something else,
such as invoking a custom latex command. So when you need "your"
command, use the corresponding color in the document.
You won't get support for command parameters this way, though.
Helge Hafting
