Re: What are custom insets?

2010-02-28 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
On 27 February 2010 21:47, stephen's mailinglist account wrote: > On 26 February 2010 01:46, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > So how do we get a password so we can upload modules to the wiki? > I now have a password and have uploaded a Soul module, Rob's longtable module with my own addition to it (a lands

Re: What are custom insets?

2010-02-27 Thread Pavel Sanda
stephen's mailinglist account wrote: > So how do we get a password so we can upload modules to the wiki? sent privately pavel

Re: What are custom insets?

2010-02-27 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
On 26 February 2010 01:46, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Rob Oakes wrote: >> And then I placed that macro in its own module.  Finally, I created a custom >> inset that would act as a float for longtables.  Here is the float > > consider to contribute one such example of creating custom inset and module > t

Re: What are custom insets?

2010-02-25 Thread Pavel Sanda
Rob Oakes wrote: > And then I placed that macro in its own module. Finally, I created a custom > inset that would act as a float for longtables. Here is the float consider to contribute one such example of creating custom inset and module to the official documentation. pavel

Re: What are custom insets?

2010-02-25 Thread Manoj Rajagopalan
Thanks, Vincent. I understand better now. I was trying to use the Todo-notes module but no custom TODO inset was showing up in the menu. Hence the (more general) question. It turned out that the todonotes.module file was not available in my distribution (2.0.0svn) though it was a listed module

RE: What are custom insets?

2010-02-25 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Manoj, In LyX, most of the specialized commands are housed inside of "insets". All of the floats and many of the commands in LyX make use of them. The provide, in essence, a convenient container for LaTeX commands. A custom inset is just an inset that you have defined yourself. As an exampl

RE: What are custom insets?

2010-02-25 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
> I see the Insert->Custom insets> in LyX but the submenu is always empty? > Why is this so? What are custom insets and how are they meant to be used >(if they can be created)? >From the User Guide sec. A.4.8: "Custom Insets: The section Flex insets and InsetLayout of the Customization manual expl