>>From: Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Can I name a font?
>>Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 17:54:31 -0400
>>
>>I'd like to create my own custom font (in LyX, not just in Latex). According
>>to Customization.lyx,
>>
>>Font
>> Family [Roman, Sans, Typewriter]
>> Series [Medium, Bold]
>> Shape [Up, Italic, SmallCaps, Slanted]
>> Size [tiny, small, normal, large, larger, largest, huge, giant]
>> Color [none, black, white, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow]
>> Latex [no_latex, latex]
>>EndFont
>>
>>Is there a name property to give it a name so I can bind it to a menu? Is
>>there a latex property so I can associate it with a latex font?
>>
>>What I'm trying to do is create a custom character style (NOT an Environment)
>>called "step" that I use for steps in the Universal Troubleshooting Process.
>>There are hundreds of occurrences of these, so I don't want to use
>>font-underline or something like that. Nor do I want to stop every time and
>>go into tex mode. What I'd like to do is highlight the phrase, and
>>Layout->StepStyle, and have the right thing happen in LyX and in the
>>Postscript output. There are several other character styles I need to do, but
>>once I have one I can do the rest myself.
>>
The Font button should fit your needs.
Just choose the required settings in the Layout->Character, then
this particular setting is toggled by the Font button.
--
Jean-Pierre