On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 2:42 PM Guenter Milde <mi...@users.sf.net> wrote: > > >> Dear All, > > >> Suppose that I have created a new enumerate-like enumerate, say > >> xenumerate. How can I use it from inside LyX without recourse to ERT? > > > A couple of possibilities come to mind. If you want to use the new > > version exclusively (and not use good old "enumerate"), you could > > redefine the enumerate environment itself. Assuming you want xenumerate > > to coexist with enumerate, you can define a layout for it, either in the > > Local Layout portion of the document settings (if you only want it for > > one document) or in a module file installed in your local layouts directory. > > > Guessing that you want the last one (i.e., add this along side regular > > enumerations and make it available to any document that wants it), I > > would suggest looking at /usr/share/lyx/layouts/stdlists.inc for > > inspiration. (That's the Linux path; on other OSes, your path may > > differ.) Look for the section that begins "Style Enumerate" and copy it > > to your local module file (which will also need the proper header > > stuff). Change the first line of the style to "Style Xenumerate" (or > > whatever), change the LatexName entry to "xenumerate", and see if > > anything else needs tweaking (quite possibly not). > > It may help to have a look a the "enumitem" module that enhances enumeration > environments. > > The appended gm-lists.module requires and uses enumitem to define > additional list types. It is a bit dated, though. > > > > Help > Customization has lots of details about creating your own modules > > and paragraph styles. Note that you will have to expressly include the > > module in any document where you want to use the style. (You could hack > > stdlists.inc itself, but then you would need to repeat the hack any time > > an upgrade/reinstallation overwrote /usr/share/lyx/layouts.)
Thanks, Günter, I will have a look at that. Paul
