Hi, I have a feature request, because I'm pretty sure you can't do
this from within LyX.
I saw some Lyx Documents written in a kind of sneaky way having to do
with ert, it would be something like
(ertbox) begin blah (end ertbox) the text (ertbox) end blah
(endertbox.) It was made like this so you could edit the actual data
that went between those tags more easily. I started using this method
for inputing IPA text with \begin{IPA} and \end{IPA} so I can see
what's going on easier.
I was thinking it would be cool if LyX would add more support for this
kind of thing. Perhaps a user could predefine types of ERT and then a
box of that type, say a box that said "IPA" could be inserted into the
text, and everything inside this box would go inbetween the IPA ERT
tags for example. This would lead to much easier editing. Also there
are other commands that might not go between tags, like \Tree for
qtree. Then I could define a box that would show up as a Tree box
which would just act like an ERT box, but formatted better and only
everything after \Tree showing up.
Does this make sense? For now it is a little hard to format documents
with a lot of ERT in it. Allowing for custom types would make
documents easier to format. Thanks.
-Stacia
