Hello,
NOTE: if you are not interested in my history of TeX/LaTex and Lyx just jump to
the question below :-D
I am very new to Lyx but a very “old” Tex/LaTeX user, while I was not using it
for long time right now. I started using TeX/LaTeX back in the 1990’s where I
used it for writing several project documents and even wrote a quite complex
package for building figures of binary data structures.
So I did have some very deep TeX knowledge at that time, while I have to admit
that now I have to lookup everything again like a noob 😊 But due to the former
use the bits come up and fit together quite easily again. When it comes to
LaTeX my knowledge is also much smaller than at that time but still better then
plain TeX “internals”.
This said, I decided to start a rather quite huge project documentation using
LaTeX again for reasons of the target audience of the project. While I was used
to write all my documents in plain LaTeX in ascii mode I decided to give a
modern frontend a try this time. After some research and reading my choice did
obviously fall on LyX. This was yesterday late evening 😃 and I decided to start
with MikTex after also some research on both options. I was not expecting LyX
to trigger as many MikTex package downloads which voided one advantage of
MikTex and also hung at some point. So I went back and went with TexLive this
time. Installation took a long time (as expected) but worked this time
including LyX which I reinstalled just for not having to search on how to
switch TeX instance and making sure it’s a clean installation as well.
Question
First I want to mention that I did RFM (LyX user and customization manuals
relevant sections) and used google with no success
I was looking for a way to use macros for entity names which may change
throughout the lifecycle of the documents (like the project name). I know how
to do it using a TeX macro but I wanted it to be a LyX integrated solution. The
solution was found via google to be an InsetLayout in the local layout
settings. I did quickly understand the main mechanics and attributes so that I
got it to work and looked up the details in the LyX customization manual.
InsetLayout "Flex:projectNameInset"
LabelString “My Project Name"
LatexType Command
LaTexName projectName
LyxType "custom"
Decoration Classic
Preamble
\newcommand*{\projectName}{ My Project Name }
EndPreamble
End
The problem with this InsetLayout is that LyX always displays a red parameter
input box after the insert of the inset and this is quite annoying in this use
case as such insets will be quite common in the document. Is there any method
for removing this as this macro does not require any arguments. I tried to set
LatexType to None with no success and did not identify any other potential
solution. Also google did not show me any potential solutions for this.
After some research and looking up in files provided with LyX I seem to
understand that basically insets are always expected to have some type of
conments and the use I make of it here is more a work-a-round than a solution.
At least I was unable to locate an inset where no content was excpected.
So the question remains:
* Is there a way to prevent LyX from asking for some content (red box)
* If not, is there another solutioin than the one used here to achieve
the same goals and avoid that input box ?
* would it be possible to add an attribute to InsetLayout to disable the
contents box in the doc text in a future version ? (like NoContent)
Many thanks for reading,
And more thanks for replying 😊,
Gatson
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