Stacia Hartleben wrote:
> I had a question about character styles in LyX 1.5.0. In 1.4.x, they
> were implemented as a bit of a hack through the command buffer.
You don't need the command buffer. You need to define the character styles in
the layout files (or included inc-files; see attached example); then you'll
see a menu entry "Insert->Char Style".
> I remember being really excited about this feature (as I use a lot of
> ERT for things in different scripts) but I never ended up using it
> because of the clunky interface (or lack thereof) and lack of
> documentation.
This is unfortunately true.
> This was a really promising feature but I think it
> needs more work before people actually begin to use it on a daily
> basis - is there any chance that in LyX 1.5.0 we will have a menu and
> a GUI to add more character styles?
I'm afraid not (we're in feature freeze). But it's high on my agenda for 1.6.
Jürgen
# Textclass definition file for docbook.
# Author : José Abílio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# Character Styles definition
Format 2
CharStyle Versal
LatexType Command
LatexName versal
LabelFont
Family Roman
Color blue
EndFont
Preamble
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\usepackage{soul}
}{}
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\DeclareRobustCommand*\versal[1]{%
\MakeUppercase{\scalefont{.92}\null{\caps{#1}}}%
}
}{}
EndPreamble
End
CharStyle Enquote*
LatexType Command
LatexName enquote*
Font
Family Typewriter
EndFont
LabelFont
Family Roman
Color green
EndFont
End
CharStyle Enquote
LatexType Command
LatexName enquote
LabelFont
Family Roman
Color green
EndFont
End
CharStyle Test
LatexType Command
LatexName dummy
Font
Family Typewriter
EndFont
LabelFont
Family Roman
Color green
EndFont
Preamble
\newcommand\dummy[1]{#1}
endPreamble
End
