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".

rh

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