On 06/06/2011 06:34 AM, Peter Flynn wrote: > On 04/06/11 23:12, Guenter Milde wrote: > [...] >> For this kind of environments, you use an Inset instead of a Style: > > I thought an Inset was for character-level markup. I may have > misunderstood something here. > >> it shows as a box in the LyX buffer, >> it is only leaved when you tell it, and >> it allows two subsequent instances without the >> "--- Environment Separator ---" hack. >> >> Unfortunately, beamer.layout (and some others) are older than the >> customizable Inset, so that it contains this "End..." hacks or uglier >> things. >> >>> What is the trick that permits (for example) a Frame environment to >>> contain other environments without the need to "increase the depth" of >>> the inserted environment? >> >> Using an Inset instead of a Style. >> > > Section 5 of the doc doesn't seem to have anything on what an Inset is > and why one would want to use one. I can see the section on FlexInsets > but not on Insets. > He meant Flex Insets. These could as well be called "user definable insets".
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