Hi Steve,
I can. LyX is smart enough that it doesn't offer that option in the Insert menu until you've created at least one character style. The minute you successfully create a character style, "Character Style" will appear asan option on your Insert submenu.
I'm surprised because in my installation (gentoo-linux, kde-3.5.7, tetex-3.0, lyx-1.5.0rc1) it appears here:
>>Edit >TextStyle > then there appears a submenu: Customized... ---------------- Capitalize Uppercase Lowercase And since the moment my Char Style 'Fboxed' is active, it appears above the line with 'Customized...' BTW I agree with your considerations on the use of Char Styles ;-) Greetings 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