On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:24:20 -0400 (EDT), Allen Wilkinson said: > To do the manual layout creation (or substantial editing of existing > layout) I need a language definition. What are all the possible > structure and elements, along with their meaning, of the style > sections defined? How does one control the placement of these style > sections in the larger document. > > Richard Heck helped on my specific two examples in hand at the moment. > > Could LyX offer a layout editor as a high level interface to managing > layouts? > > Thanks, Allen
Hi Allen, The LyX part of layouts has a relatively few choices, that would be very amenable to a front end to a .conf file, kind of like what SWAT is to smb.conf. A simple script could turn the conf file into a layout. BUT... LaTeX is all over the map. There are lots of ways to indent. Lots of ways to invoke different spacing. The best I could do to create a tool for writing LaTeX is to ask the user for spacing, fontface, font size, font weight, font slant, justification, etc, and then write LaTeX to do approximately that in a very prepackaged way. It would need to be tweaked. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ * http://twitter.com/stevelitt Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
