%% "Larry S. Marso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Now, I want filenames like "foo/bar/obj" to appear in a fixed-width
>> font like courier. But I also want them all to use the same
>> character "style", say "filename", so I can change them all at once
>> later (maybe I decide I like helvetica better, or a smaller size,
>> or something).
lsm> This is not very hard. But you require what we long-timers call
lsm> ERT, which means "Evil Red Text" -- raw LaTeX.
lsm> Layout->LaTeX Preamble
lsm> Add:
lsm> \def{\filename}{\ttfamily}
lsm> ^^^^^^^^^ definition
lsm> ^^^^^^^^ name of your style
lsm> Then, anywhere in your document you type a file name, type:
lsm> \filename{foo/bar/obj}
lsm> ^^^^^^^^^^^ affected text
lsm> ^^^^^^^^ name of your style
lsm> This text (or at least everything outside the "{}" must be in so-called
lsm> "LaTeX mode"
Cool, I'll look at this.
lsm> You see, LaTeX makes it very simple to define and use styles,
lsm> even if it's unclean ERT. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that
lsm> 1.1 will support a menu based definition scheme.
I don't so much care about a menu-based definition scheme: after all,
once you've defined it, however gross it was, it's defined.
The problem with the above is the extreme pain involved with _USING_ it,
not defining it. The use of it is what you do over and over.
As I understand it, for every single filename in my document (which
could well be in the hundreds or more) that I wanted to apply this to, I
first have to type M-c t to enter TeX mode, then \filename, then M-c t
to exit TeX mode, then {, the filename, and }.
Can I bind a key to do all this? I'll have to go look that up in more
detail.
lsm> Think about it, definitions have a number of wide ranging
lsm> applications, not just "styles".
Certainly I agree; I've been using Emacs, etc. too long not to
appreciate the power of a full scripting language you can escape to.
But what you need is the ability to customize the user interface, too,
to get those applications easy to use.
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