Hi all, Has anyone ever considered building a template based style builder tool for LyX?
Each template is based on the resulting LaTeX code. For instance, a template resulting in a minipage. A program could read the template, and query the user for width of the minipage, whether it's centered right or left, whether its interior writing is centered right or left, whether it's colored, whether it's bordered. Then it would produce the appropriate LaTeX and LyX environment code. To modify the environment, the code would be read, compared against the template, and the questions would be re-asked, of course with the former values as the defaults. What I'm trying to do here is bring LyX to the masses -- people not dedicated enough to thoroughly learn LaTeX. I'm suggesting a way that creating a new style, or at least certain new styles, would be 10 minutes like MS Word, not 10 hours like LyX. Can anyone envision how this would be done? What would the template look like? What would the (presumably GUI) program be written in? Would it operate directly on the layout file (plus template), or would it operate on a style file which could then be copied and pasted into the layout file? It's my opinion that if LyX styles could be created as easily as MS Word styles or Wordperfect styles, the last impediment to wide LyX adoption would be gone. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
