Hi all, In a different thread, Gunter Milde penned these words:
> You need to clone both, LyX layout:: > > Style Questions > CopyStyle Enumeration > That is THE most powerful LyX idiom I've ever seen. As most of you know, my biggest objection to LyX is the excruciating pain required to make my own environments in the layout file. "Excruciating pain" is an overstatement. I was a contract software developer from 1984-2002, so obviously I can make the environments. My problem is that, for me, it's very hard to switch mindsets from author to tech geek and back again in order to create a style. Now I don't have to. When I come upon a situation requiring a new style, I just put this in my layout file: Style MyNewStyle CopyStyle Standard End And I go on about my business. When I have time I'll check whether I can actually change appearances in LyX like this: Style MyNewStyle CopyStyle Standard LeftMargin MMM RightMargin MMM Font Size Larger EndFont End If that's possible, then within LyX I can see at a glance that my new style is custom, and that I later have to develop the LaTeX to complete it. After several days or weeks of creating this type of dummy styles, one day I can go into programmer mode and make all the styles without the pressure of having to slam out 2000 words that day. So Gunter -- thanks SO much for that idiom. It makes LyX a much more useful tool. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US