On 10/17/18 2:35 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> On 10/17/18 11:24 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> On 10/17/18 9:30 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>>> On 10/16/18 10:24 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
>>>> On 17/10/2018 4:47 a.m., Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>>>>> Dear devs,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm struggling to cobble together a module supporting the
>>>>> pseudocode features of the algorithmicx package. As a disclaimer,
>>>>> I'm trying to avoid flex insets and stick to environments as much
>>>>> as possible, because there's less mousery switching an environment
>>>>> than insert an inset.
>>>>>
>>>>> Right now, I'm tripping over the for block, which it implements by
>>>>> two LaTeX commands: \For{<conditions>} and \EndFor. I can treat
>>>>> those as command styles and get the correct output, but the GUI is
>>>>> confusing to the user because nothing displays in the line ending
>>>>> the loop (it looks like a blank line to the user) and the
>>>>> condition appears in the starting line with no visible prefix (so
>>>>> it looks like any random statement in the algorithm, unless you
>>>>> notice what the environment select box is displaying.
>>>>>
>>>>> So what I'm looking for right now is a way to display a
>>>>> tag/prefix/symbol at the start of a command style that appears in
>>>>> the GUI but /not/ in the compiled output. The "handle" for an
>>>>> inset would be fine, as would something like a bullet that was
>>>>> GUI-only. Can this be done with the current layout/module system?
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA,
>>>>> Paul
>>>> Is this what you are wanting (from Customization manual 5.3.7)? (I
>>>> experimented with this a couple of years ago, so my memory of the
>>>> exact effect is somewhat hazy.)
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>> |LabelType|
>>>> [|/No_Label/, Manual, Static, Above,
>>>> Centered, Sensitive, Enumerate,
>>>> Itemize, Bibliography|]
>>>>
>>>> |Static|
>>>> means the label is simply what is declared as
>>>> |LabelString|. This will be displayed “inline”, at the
>>>> beginning of the paragraph. If the |LatexType| is
>>>> |Environment|, then it will be displayed only in the first
>>>> paragraph of any sequence of paragraphs with the same |Style|.
>>>> |Above| and |Centered|
>>>> are special cases of |Static|. The label will be printed
>>>> above the paragraph either at the beginning of the line or
>>>> centered.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Thanks for the reply, but no, that doesn't work. With a command type
>>> style (and combined with a LabelString argument) it does not seem to
>>> do anything in either the GUI or the output. I tried it with an
>>> environment, and I believe the label string showed up in the output
>>> but not the GUI. (I would have to double-check that.)
>>
>> Try this in Local Layout (to test):
>>
>> Format 66
>>
>> Style ForLoop
>>
>> LatexType Command
>>
>> LabelType Static
>>
>> LabelString "ForLoop: "
>>
>> EndLabelType Static
>>
>> Margin Static
>>
>> LeftMargin "ForLoop: "
>>
>> LabelFont
>>
>> Color red
>>
>> Series bold
>>
>> EndFont
>>
>> EndLabelString " EndForLoop"
>>
>> LatexName forloop
>>
>> End
>>
>> The margin always throws me off. If it's wrong, the label is off
>> screen to the left.
>>
>> You could also try "LabelType Above" and remove the margin stuff.
>>
>> Riki
>>
> Thanks Riki! That at least gets me headed in the right direction. I
> don't know why I wasn't getting the label string to display before --
> maybe because I failed to specify the Margin, LeftMargin or LabelFont?
> (I did specify LabelType and LabelString, with no luck.)
>
> The margin business is going to be interesting. Your code has the
> correct left margin when select the ForLoop style from the environment
> list, but when I nest it (inside an algorithmicx environment) the
> label moves to the left (I would have expected right) and blows the
> left margin. I expect that an exhaustive try of all choices will
> eventually find one that works.
It would not surprise me if there were a bug here about margin handling.
Can you send an MWE? Put any new layout code into Local Layout.
Riki
