"SNPP", I'm sure, is "Springfield Nuclear Power Plant". Love all of this, and the documentation you've done. It's nice to know what's possible, even if there are unsolved problems.
From: Paul Johnson <pauljoh...@gmail.com> >To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 1:14 PM >Subject: customizing bullets in lists: I got Simpsons now, you could too > >Without further adieu! Working example output: > >http://pj.freefaculty.org/scraps/simpsons/simpsons-2.pdf > >Lyx file: > >http://pj.freefaculty.org/scraps/simpsons/simpsons-2.lyx > >Even if you don't want the Simpsons as your bullets in lists, you >might still look this over because it shows how you can put in ANY >valid LaTeX symbol a the bullet for a particular item or for an entire >list. And each list in a presentation can have different bullet >symbols. > >I did not find any easy LyX documentation on this. If there is some, >and you wrote it, I'm sorry to overlook you. . > >1. Easy, direct way, no LyX module or new package required: > >In case you did not know this yet, in LyX, after you create a list >item, and the bullet symbol is showing, you can enter ERT mode and >just put the name of a symbol in brackets, like [\Bart]. That replaces >the default bullet with your symbol. Also things like [$\gamma$] work >if you don't have the Simpson's characters. You can intersperse those >customized bullet symbols with regular bullets. If you go shopping in >the MASSIVE LaTeX symbol collection (see slide 1 in the pdf), you will >probably see symbols you would love in your lists. > >2. Use enumitem, gain ability to change bullet for entire list easily: >ERT [label=\Bart] > >If you turn on the LyX module to Customize Itemized Lists (enumitem), >then you gain some new powers, such as the ability to declare a label >in the first item of any list and that is used automatically for all >remaining list items. > >I could use your help. > >Here are problems I did not solve. They are listed in the pdf, but in >case you miss them > >1. I can't find a way to re-size the metafont symbols, some (Marge) >are way too big > >2. The bullets are aligned with the bottom of the text line, but it >would be more usual to have them aligned with the center of the >multi-line item. Ideas? > >3. In Lyx-2.0.3, at least in this example file, as soon as I turn on >the module to Customize lists, then all default bullet symbols are >lost. If I don't specify a label for each list, I get no bullets. >That is a new feature/bug for me, I've not seen it before. > >If anybody has ideas about these things, let me know. I may post that >example into the LyX Wiki, if I can reach the conclusion about whether >1 and 2 can be "solved" and if 3 is a problem unique to this document >(probably because I've damaged some default setting somewhere). > >pj > >-- >Paul E. Johnson >Professor, Political Science Assoc. Director >1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 Center for Research Methods >University of Kansas University of Kansas >http://pj.freefaculty.org http://quant.ku.edu > > >
