Alexander Tsyplakov wrote: > Sorry for my vague description of the problem and > somewhat confusing title for the thread. Logically > any special character is very similar to an inset > without text inside. At an abstract level one can > think about text markup entities which are > elementary in their nature and do not contain > anything within them. There are such things in > LyX, but all of them are hard coded (like ellipsis > or hyphenation point). The only exception and a > great progress are macros in math. It would be > great to have something like that for the text. > Besides special characters proper such > functionality can be used for ornaments, logos > (like \LaTeX) other solitary LaTeX commands like > \theendnotes, etc.
I think it can be made this way. We could add an option to specify whether such a custom command inset appears as a button (such as InsetBibTeX) or with a transparent background. The latter could be used for the things Alexander has in mind, if I get his description right. Jürgen
