Richard Heck wrote Monday, November 22, 2010, 23:56:52: >> I meant user customization by means of inclusion >> in layouts and modules. This can be used for >> logotypes, special babel commands, etc. One can >> not hard code any special symbol in advance.
RH> If you want to add custom insets, paragraph or RH> character styles, then the best way to do so RH> is to create your own module that defines one RH> or more of these, and then use it in the usual RH> way. Instructions are in chapter 5 of the RH> Customization manual. Well, I know, but single symbol is not the same as a markup for a piece of text. Custom inset is the most close thing to what I want, but it has contents which is unneeded and for a simple symbol. RH> If what you want to add isn't one of these RH> things, then, well, you can't do do that quite RH> so easily. I see. The thing is very natural and useful while LyX already has much more complicated features. It is strange that LyX lacks it. That's why I asked. What is the best place for such a feature request? Devel list? RH> In fact, though, what I said earlier isn't RH> quite true. You can give LyX the ability to RH> recognize (and even display) new characters RH> and such by adding them to the unicodesymbols RH> file, which lives in the system directory, RH> e.g.: RH> /usr/local/share/lyx/ RH> on Linux, by default. But there's no provision RH> for doing this in modules. Isn't it a bad idea to modify global files? Alexander
