2018-05-04 13:27 GMT+02:00 Mario D <[email protected]>:
> Is there a simple way in lyx to change the background color of some text,
> maybe a paragraph?
>
> I have not been able to find a way to do this natively: the only way I
> could obtain it is by using the "soul" package, then inserting the latex
> code "\hl{" in ERT just before the the text to be highlighted and then a
> closing "}" at its end.
>
If you want a background colour to apply to certain paragraphs, on LyX it's
possible to define a paragraph style that apply the mdframe package. Go to
Document → Settings → Local format and add something like this (I'm using
2.3 here, if you're still on 2.2.x write "Format 60" instead)
Format 66
Style MyQuotation
Category MainText
Margin Static
LatexType Environment
LatexName myquotation
NextNoIndent 1
LeftMargin MMM
RightMargin MMM
ParIndent MM
ParSkip 0
ItemSep 0
TopSep 0.5
BottomSep 0.5
ParSep 0
Align Block
AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center
Preamble
\usepackage{mdframed}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\newenvironment{myquotation}
{\begin{mdframed}[
backgroundcolor=lightgray,
linecolor=lightgray
]\quotation}
{\endquotation\end{mdframed}}
EndPreamble
End
Validate, convert to the new format if necessary and now you'll have a new
paragraph environment called "MyQuotation" with some indents and light grey
background and borders.
[Got the idea from here
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6851/create-new-paragraph-style-in-lyx#7471
I'd just converted the example to a Local Format]
Regards,
Ricardo
>
> Thanks
>
