Hi Jürgen, thanks for your answer ;-) Actually I'm using LyX-1.5.0beta.
I copied your text in my local layouts file (obviously wihtout the '> 's > CharStyle Fboxed_Code > LatexType Command > LatexName fboxedcode > LabelFont > Family Roman > Color blue > EndFont > Preamble > \newcommand{\fboxedcode}[1]{ > \fbox{\texttt{\small% > #1% > } }% texttt fbox > } > EndPreamble > End Then I ran reconfigure. After eliminating the entries for my old Style (\begin_layout ...) by changing them to 'Standard' I opened the document, marked some strings and chose the CharStyle Fboxed_Code which is now available. (>>Edit >CharStyle, in my german Version it is >>Bearbeiten >Textstil) The selected string seemed to be put in a box which is somewaht longer than needed, underlined in red and marked beneeth in red 'Undef.: Fboxed' Creating the PDF, it seems to have no effect at all. Fortunately I tried with the CahrStyle name 'Fboxed' throwing away the part '_Code'. So I learn not to use '_' in the name of a CharStyle. This works perfectly, exactly what I had in mind. Thank you very much. Is this feature already described in the documentation? I grepped for CharStyle in the doc directory but didn't get any result. BTW Trying to produce a PDF from the user handbook LyX ran into an error seemingly when processing the special symbols table (shortly after the 'Compose'-Explanation. The LaTeX protocol mentiones some lacking '}' I profit from the opportunity to thank the developpers team for the work you are doing. LyX is really the best text processing software I have come across. I like the photograph of the LyX-Team whcih pops up when I call LyX without a filename. Would you mind to explain who's who? Thanks again Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq