On Tuesday 31 March 2009 16:19:02 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Stefano Franchi wrote:
> > that solves the problem. Can I ask you to explain what you did, so I can
> > understand the solution and replicate it myself?
>
> Sure.
>
> > In the first solution, what did you insert after the beginning of the
> > quote environment and before the beginning of the enumerate environment?
> > All I see in LyX is an empty red rectangle, and the LaTex source window
> > shows a completely empty line.
>
> I have inserted an empty ERT into a quote environment (this is the red
> rectangle). Its purpose is only to keep the environment (if the quote
> paragraph was empty, LyX would just delete it). A note inset would probably
> do as well. This generates
> \begin{quote}
>
> In the next part, I inserted the enumeration, and I nested it into the
> quote environment (Edit>Increase List Depth). The purpose was to have the
> enumeration environment nested into the "empty" quote environment. I.e.,
>
> \begin{quote}
> \begin{enumeration}
> \item foo
> \item bar
> \end{enumerate}
> \end{quote}
>
> > In the second solution, I understand the \setcounter part, but what is
> > the meaning of the open and close brackets as ERT?
>
> This is the optional argument of the enumeration item, in LaTeX
>
> \item[``1.] foo
>
> In the optional argument, you can set an alternative enumeration label, so
> the label is ``1. instead of just 1.
> The setcounter part is needed, because the counter needs to be increased
> (otherwise, the second item would start with 1.
>
> Regards,
> Jürgen
Thanks a lot Jürgen. Now it is all clear and I can already start using yor
suggestions as well as tweaking them to fit my needs.
I must say, the trick that fools LyX with an empty ERT box is pretty slick!
Cheers,
S.
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