On Tuesday 14 September 2004 05:20, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I am looking for ideas on how to have make sure a sentence is clearly
> shown as being important to read.
>
> For example, a book may have a few paragraphs, then an offset paragraph
> that clearly says "Security Note: ...".
What do you mean by offset parragraph? Anything near Quote enviroment?
>
> Some books do it with icons (graphics).
Menu - Insert -Graphics
>
> Some books do it as margin quotes.
>
Menu - Insert - Marginal Note
> Some use a tinted or gray box, or have a box outline.
\framebox command in ERT
or
\usepackage{fancybox} for prettier boxes
>
> Any suggestions on how I should do this?
I guess, you would probably like to have a style for this, right?
Something like "ImportantStandart" paragraph.
Then, you need to modify the corresponding .layout file.
It is described well in Help - Customization - Section 5.3.3
>
> Any latex code or lyx examples?
Another possibility is to define a newcommand in the preamble, I use:
\usepackage{fancybox}
\newcommand\IM{\marginpar{\Ovalbox{\textbf{\large !}}}}
in the preamble
and type \IM{} in ERT at the beginning of the important paragraph
Vasek
