Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:36:01PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: ... how can I get this behavior with any word? Good question. Maybe Herbert or someone else can help. That's like the user calling the help

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Helge Hafting writes: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:36:01PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: [...] Dear Thread-Contributors, This is all very interesting perhaps, but please, I am subscribed to the list -- you do not need to cc me with

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:36:01PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: ... how can I get this behavior with any word? Good question. Maybe Herbert or someone else can help. That's like the user calling the help

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Helge Hafting writes: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:36:01PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: [...] Dear Thread-Contributors, This is all very interesting perhaps, but please, I am subscribed to the list -- you do not need to cc me with

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:36:01PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: ... how can I get this behavior with "any" word? Good question. Maybe Herbert or someone else can help. That's like the user calling the

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Helge Hafting writes: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:36:01PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > >>On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: [...] Dear Thread-Contributors, This is all very interesting perhaps, but please, I am subscribed to the list -- you do not need to cc me

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi Stephen, Stephen Harris schrieb: I have a question about this. My knowledge is theoretical rather than practical and draws upon Knuth's discussion of macros/definitions in The TeXbook concerning the TeX logo plus chapter twenty, Knuth: The TeXbook is great if you want to learn to program

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Karsten Heymann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:06 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? Hi Stephen, and put it in macros.tex and load it with \input macros and use it in LyX

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi Stephen, (your OE does strange quoting, please fix it, it's difficult to see who'se written what. thanks. Maybe the following link ist interesting too: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/) Stephen Harris schrieb: Though the syntax of \DeclareRobustCommand is probably older than

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: Karsten Heymann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:06 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? Hi Stephen, and put it in macros.tex and load it with \input

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:36:01PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: ... how can I get this behavior with any word? Good question. Maybe Herbert or someone else can help. That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find the any key

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:58:38PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Joerg Hau writes: Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend (upper/lowercase!), and go to

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:36:13 +0100, Karsten Heymann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Karsten Hi Stephen, (your OE does strange quoting, please fix it, Karsten it's difficult to see who'se written what. thanks. Maybe the Karsten following link ist interesting too: Karsten

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:20 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: Karsten Heymann [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread David A. Case
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006, Andre Poenitz wrote: That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find the any key on her keyboard. But the instructions say to press any key! I keep telling people that the 'any key' is the '5' on the numeric keys block. It works and has not much

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi Stephen, Stephen Harris schrieb: I have a question about this. My knowledge is theoretical rather than practical and draws upon Knuth's discussion of macros/definitions in The TeXbook concerning the TeX logo plus chapter twenty, Knuth: The TeXbook is great if you want to learn to program

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Karsten Heymann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:06 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? Hi Stephen, and put it in macros.tex and load it with \input macros and use it in LyX

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi Stephen, (your OE does strange quoting, please fix it, it's difficult to see who'se written what. thanks. Maybe the following link ist interesting too: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/) Stephen Harris schrieb: Though the syntax of \DeclareRobustCommand is probably older than

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: Karsten Heymann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:06 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? Hi Stephen, and put it in macros.tex and load it with \input

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:36:01PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: ... how can I get this behavior with any word? Good question. Maybe Herbert or someone else can help. That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find the any key

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:58:38PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Joerg Hau writes: Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend (upper/lowercase!), and go to

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:36:13 +0100, Karsten Heymann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Karsten Hi Stephen, (your OE does strange quoting, please fix it, Karsten it's difficult to see who'se written what. thanks. Maybe the Karsten following link ist interesting too: Karsten

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:20 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: Karsten Heymann [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread David A. Case
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006, Andre Poenitz wrote: That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find the any key on her keyboard. But the instructions say to press any key! I keep telling people that the 'any key' is the '5' on the numeric keys block. It works and has not much

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi Stephen, Stephen Harris schrieb: > I have a question about this. My knowledge is theoretical rather than > practical and draws upon Knuth's discussion of macros/definitions in > "The TeXbook" concerning the TeX logo plus chapter twenty, Knuth: The TeXbook is great if you want to learn to

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Karsten Heymann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:06 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? Hi Stephen, and put it in macros.tex and load it with \input ma

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi Stephen, (your OE does strange quoting, please fix it, it's difficult to see who'se written what. thanks. Maybe the following link ist interesting too: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/) Stephen Harris schrieb: > Though the syntax of \DeclareRobustCommand is probably older

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Herbert Voss
Stephen Harris wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Karsten Heymann" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, > February 22, 2006 1:06 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a > particular word? > &

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:36:01PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > > >>... how can I get this behavior with "any" word? > > > >Good question. Maybe Herbert or someone else can help. > > That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:58:38PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Joerg Hau writes: > > Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to > > do. > > > > An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write > > e.g. "LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend"

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Stephen Harris
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:36:13 +0100, Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Karsten> Hi Stephen, (your OE does strange quoting, please fix it, Karsten> it's difficult to see who'se written what. thanks. Maybe the Karsten> following link ist interesting too: Karsten>

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Herbert Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:20 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: &qu

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread David A. Case
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find the > > "any" key on her keyboard. "But the instructions say to press any key!" > > I keep telling people that the 'any key' is the '5' on the numeric keys > block. It works and

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Joerg == Joerg Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joerg Hi again, Yet another question ... Joerg I am currently writing a manual for some software, and I would Joerg like the name of the software to appear automagically in a Joerg particular typesetting, i.e. without the need for special Joerg

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: ... how can I get this behavior with any word? Jean-Marc says it's not possible. But then you could do this in one search-and-replace step (replacing your SpecialWord with its ERT-LaTeX equivalent command) in a text editor after your LyX document is ready. -Kevin -- Kevin

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joerg Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:14 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? Joerg == Joerg Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joerg Hi

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Joerg == Joerg Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joerg Hi again, Yet another question ... Joerg I am currently writing a manual for some software, and I would Joerg like the name of the software to appear automagically in a Joerg particular typesetting, i.e. without the need for special Joerg

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: ... how can I get this behavior with any word? Jean-Marc says it's not possible. But then you could do this in one search-and-replace step (replacing your SpecialWord with its ERT-LaTeX equivalent command) in a text editor after your LyX document is ready. -Kevin -- Kevin

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joerg Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:14 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? Joerg == Joerg Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joerg Hi

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joerg" == Joerg Hau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joerg> Hi again, Yet another question ... Joerg> I am currently writing a manual for some software, and I would Joerg> like the name of the software to appear automagically in a Joerg> particular typesetting, i.e. without the need for

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: > ... how can I get this behavior with "any" word? Jean-Marc says it's not possible. But then you could do this in one search-and-replace step (replacing your SpecialWord with its ERT-LaTeX equivalent command) in a text editor after your LyX document is ready. -Kevin --

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Joerg Hau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:14 AM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? "Joe

Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi again, Yet another question ... I am currently writing a manual for some software, and I would like the name of the software to appear automagically in a particular typesetting, i.e. without the need for special markup in the text of the document (not unlike the proper names of LyX and

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: The problem is, I don't have the slightest idea about the way to define this .. preamble, yes, but how exactly? Any pointers? For example... In preamble: \newcommand{\PKflasche}{\textit{Die Flasche}} In text (ERT): \PKflasche{} The rest you can probably find online (here,

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi Kevin, In preamble: \newcommand{\PKflasche}{\textit{Die Flasche}} In text (ERT): \PKflasche{} Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend (upper/lowercase!), and go to the preview ... the two words LyX and LaTeX are displayed in their

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: ... how can I get this behavior with any word? Good question. Maybe Herbert or someone else can help. That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find the any key on her keyboard. But the instructions say to press any key! Rich

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joerg Hau schrieb: Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend (upper/lowercase!), and go to the preview ... the two words LyX and LaTeX are displayed in their

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Joerg Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 1:23 PM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend

Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi again, Yet another question ... I am currently writing a manual for some software, and I would like the name of the software to appear automagically in a particular typesetting, i.e. without the need for special markup in the text of the document (not unlike the proper names of LyX and

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: The problem is, I don't have the slightest idea about the way to define this .. preamble, yes, but how exactly? Any pointers? For example... In preamble: \newcommand{\PKflasche}{\textit{Die Flasche}} In text (ERT): \PKflasche{} The rest you can probably find online (here,

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi Kevin, In preamble: \newcommand{\PKflasche}{\textit{Die Flasche}} In text (ERT): \PKflasche{} Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend (upper/lowercase!), and go to the preview ... the two words LyX and LaTeX are displayed in their

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: ... how can I get this behavior with any word? Good question. Maybe Herbert or someone else can help. That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find the any key on her keyboard. But the instructions say to press any key! Rich

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joerg Hau schrieb: Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend (upper/lowercase!), and go to the preview ... the two words LyX and LaTeX are displayed in their

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Joerg Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 1:23 PM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend

Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi again, Yet another question ... I am currently writing a manual for some software, and I would like the name of the software to appear automagically in a particular typesetting, i.e. without the need for special markup in the text of the document (not unlike the proper names of "LyX" and

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: > The problem is, I don't have the slightest idea about the way to > define this .. preamble, yes, but how exactly? Any pointers? For example... In preamble: \newcommand{\PKflasche}{\textit{Die Flasche}} In text (ERT): \PKflasche{} The rest you can probably find online (here,

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi Kevin, > In preamble: > \newcommand{\PKflasche}{\textit{Die Flasche}} > > In text (ERT): > \PKflasche{} Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. "LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend"

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Joerg Hau writes: > Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to > do. > > An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write > e.g. "LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend" (upper/lowercase!), and go to > the preview ... the two words "LyX" and "LaTeX" are

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: ... how can I get this behavior with "any" word? Good question. Maybe Herbert or someone else can help. That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find the "any" key on her keyboard. "But the instructions say to press any key!"

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joerg Hau schrieb: Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. "LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend" (upper/lowercase!), and go to the preview ... the two words "LyX" and "LaTeX" are displayed in

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-20 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Joerg Hau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 1:23 PM Subject: Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word? An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. &