Re: reformatting all miniboxes

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Premanshu Bhushan wrote:
 Thanks Jürgen Spitzmüller. Your hack does work as all my boxes were 100% 
 textwidth. Can u also help to understand something like running a script
 for  me in Lyx.

Not really. I guess a good starting point would be this:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PLyXSystem
Then you'd need to do some Python programming.

Regards,
Jürgen

Re: reformatting all miniboxes

[Andrew Parsloe]

On 4/01/2014 9:57 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Premanshu Bhushan wrote:

Thanks Jürgen Spitzmüller. Your hack does work as all my boxes were 100%
textwidth. Can u also help to understand something like running a script
for  me in Lyx.


Not really. I guess a good starting point would be this:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PLyXSystem
Then you'd need to do some Python programming.

Regards,
Jürgen



For something like changing the width of text boxes, the find--replace 
script of the pLyX system will do the job -- no Python programming 
needed. The document explaining the use of the find--replace script has 
an example of changing the width of graphic insets.


Andrew

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Re: reformatting all miniboxes

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Premanshu Bhushan wrote:
 Thanks Jürgen Spitzmüller. Your hack does work as all my boxes were 100% 
 textwidth. Can u also help to understand something like running a script
 for  me in Lyx.

Not really. I guess a good starting point would be this:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PLyXSystem
Then you'd need to do some Python programming.

Regards,
Jürgen

Re: reformatting all miniboxes

[Andrew Parsloe]

On 4/01/2014 9:57 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Premanshu Bhushan wrote:

Thanks Jürgen Spitzmüller. Your hack does work as all my boxes were 100%
textwidth. Can u also help to understand something like running a script
for  me in Lyx.


Not really. I guess a good starting point would be this:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PLyXSystem
Then you'd need to do some Python programming.

Regards,
Jürgen



For something like changing the width of text boxes, the find--replace 
script of the pLyX system will do the job -- no Python programming 
needed. The document explaining the use of the find--replace script has 
an example of changing the width of graphic insets.


Andrew

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Re: reformatting all miniboxes

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Premanshu Bhushan wrote:
> Thanks Jürgen Spitzmüller. Your hack does work as all my boxes were 100% 
> textwidth. Can u also help to understand something like running a script
> for  me in Lyx.

Not really. I guess a good starting point would be this:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PLyXSystem
Then you'd need to do some Python programming.

Regards,
Jürgen

Re: reformatting all miniboxes

[Andrew Parsloe]

On 4/01/2014 9:57 p.m., Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Premanshu Bhushan wrote:

Thanks Jürgen Spitzmüller. Your hack does work as all my boxes were 100%
textwidth. Can u also help to understand something like running a script
for  me in Lyx.


Not really. I guess a good starting point would be this:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PLyXSystem
Then you'd need to do some Python programming.

Regards,
Jürgen



For something like changing the width of text boxes, the find-&-replace 
script of the pLyX system will do the job -- no Python programming 
needed. The document explaining the use of the find-&-replace script has 
an example of changing the width of graphic insets.


Andrew

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Re: reformatting all miniboxes

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Premanshu Bhushan wrote:
 I have been writing a book in lyx. I am using a lot of shaded boxes to 
 highlight information. Is there a way to redesign all of them by redefinig 
 them in preamble. For example, can i write a code to reduce the width to
 0.8  of text width and make them all centered. otherwise i will have to
 manually select all more than 100 boxes and declare its property. it
 defeats the purpose of using styles rather than manually formatting. I have
 been experimenting with renewcommand and renewenvironment codes but without
 much success.

The following hack should work if all boxes currently have 100% text width:

\renewenvironment{shaded}{%
   \begin{center}%
   \begin{minipage}[t]{.8\columnwidth}% 
   \def\FrameCommand{\fboxsep=\FrameSep \colorbox{shadecolor}}%
  \MakeFramed {\FrameRestore}%
}{%
   \endMakeFramed
   \end{minipage}%
   \end{center}%
}

Another possibility would be do run a script on the LyX file directly.

Regards,
Jürgen

Re: reformatting all miniboxes

[Premanshu Bhushan]

Jürgen Spitzmüller spitz at lyx.org writes:

 
 Premanshu Bhushan wrote:
  I have been writing a book in lyx. I am using a lot of shaded boxes to 
  highlight information. Is there a way to redesign all of them by 
redefinig 
  them in preamble. For example, can i write a code to reduce the width to
  0.8  of text width and make them all centered. otherwise i will have to
  manually select all more than 100 boxes and declare its property. it
  defeats the purpose of using styles rather than manually formatting. I 
have
  been experimenting with renewcommand and renewenvironment codes but 
without
  much success.
 
 The following hack should work if all boxes currently have 100% text 
width:
 
 \renewenvironment{shaded}{%
\begin{center}%
\begin{minipage}[t]{.8\columnwidth}% 
\def\FrameCommand{\fboxsep=\FrameSep \colorbox{shadecolor}}%
   \MakeFramed {\FrameRestore}%
 }{%
\endMakeFramed
\end{minipage}%
\end{center}%
 }
 
 Another possibility would be do run a script on the LyX file directly.
 
 Regards,
 Jürgen
 
Thanks Jürgen Spitzmüller. Your hack does work as all my boxes were 100% 
textwidth. Can u also help to understand something like running a script for 
me in Lyx. Thanks. 
Premanshu Bhushan 
 

Re: reformatting all miniboxes

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Premanshu Bhushan wrote:
 I have been writing a book in lyx. I am using a lot of shaded boxes to 
 highlight information. Is there a way to redesign all of them by redefinig 
 them in preamble. For example, can i write a code to reduce the width to
 0.8  of text width and make them all centered. otherwise i will have to
 manually select all more than 100 boxes and declare its property. it
 defeats the purpose of using styles rather than manually formatting. I have
 been experimenting with renewcommand and renewenvironment codes but without
 much success.

The following hack should work if all boxes currently have 100% text width:

\renewenvironment{shaded}{%
   \begin{center}%
   \begin{minipage}[t]{.8\columnwidth}% 
   \def\FrameCommand{\fboxsep=\FrameSep \colorbox{shadecolor}}%
  \MakeFramed {\FrameRestore}%
}{%
   \endMakeFramed
   \end{minipage}%
   \end{center}%
}

Another possibility would be do run a script on the LyX file directly.

Regards,
Jürgen

Re: reformatting all miniboxes

[Premanshu Bhushan]

Jürgen Spitzmüller spitz at lyx.org writes:

 
 Premanshu Bhushan wrote:
  I have been writing a book in lyx. I am using a lot of shaded boxes to 
  highlight information. Is there a way to redesign all of them by 
redefinig 
  them in preamble. For example, can i write a code to reduce the width to
  0.8  of text width and make them all centered. otherwise i will have to
  manually select all more than 100 boxes and declare its property. it
  defeats the purpose of using styles rather than manually formatting. I 
have
  been experimenting with renewcommand and renewenvironment codes but 
without
  much success.
 
 The following hack should work if all boxes currently have 100% text 
width:
 
 \renewenvironment{shaded}{%
\begin{center}%
\begin{minipage}[t]{.8\columnwidth}% 
\def\FrameCommand{\fboxsep=\FrameSep \colorbox{shadecolor}}%
   \MakeFramed {\FrameRestore}%
 }{%
\endMakeFramed
\end{minipage}%
\end{center}%
 }
 
 Another possibility would be do run a script on the LyX file directly.
 
 Regards,
 Jürgen
 
Thanks Jürgen Spitzmüller. Your hack does work as all my boxes were 100% 
textwidth. Can u also help to understand something like running a script for 
me in Lyx. Thanks. 
Premanshu Bhushan 
 

Re: reformatting all miniboxes

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Premanshu Bhushan wrote:
> I have been writing a book in lyx. I am using a lot of shaded boxes to 
> highlight information. Is there a way to redesign all of them by redefinig 
> them in preamble. For example, can i write a code to reduce the width to
> 0.8  of text width and make them all centered. otherwise i will have to
> manually select all more than 100 boxes and declare its property. it
> defeats the purpose of using styles rather than manually formatting. I have
> been experimenting with renewcommand and renewenvironment codes but without
> much success.

The following hack should work if all boxes currently have 100% text width:

\renewenvironment{shaded}{%
   \begin{center}%
   \begin{minipage}[t]{.8\columnwidth}% 
   \def\FrameCommand{\fboxsep=\FrameSep \colorbox{shadecolor}}%
  \MakeFramed {\FrameRestore}%
}{%
   \endMakeFramed
   \end{minipage}%
   \end{center}%
}

Another possibility would be do run a script on the LyX file directly.

Regards,
Jürgen

Re: reformatting all miniboxes

[Premanshu Bhushan]

Jürgen Spitzmüller  lyx.org> writes:

> 
> Premanshu Bhushan wrote:
> > I have been writing a book in lyx. I am using a lot of shaded boxes to 
> > highlight information. Is there a way to redesign all of them by 
redefinig 
> > them in preamble. For example, can i write a code to reduce the width to
> > 0.8  of text width and make them all centered. otherwise i will have to
> > manually select all more than 100 boxes and declare its property. it
> > defeats the purpose of using styles rather than manually formatting. I 
have
> > been experimenting with renewcommand and renewenvironment codes but 
without
> > much success.
> 
> The following hack should work if all boxes currently have 100% text 
width:
> 
> \renewenvironment{shaded}{%
>\begin{center}%
>\begin{minipage}[t]{.8\columnwidth}% 
>\def\FrameCommand{\fboxsep=\FrameSep \colorbox{shadecolor}}%
>   \MakeFramed {\FrameRestore}%
> }{%
>\endMakeFramed
>\end{minipage}%
>\end{center}%
> }
> 
> Another possibility would be do run a script on the LyX file directly.
> 
> Regards,
> Jürgen
> 
Thanks Jürgen Spitzmüller. Your hack does work as all my boxes were 100% 
textwidth. Can u also help to understand something like running a script for 
me in Lyx. Thanks. 
Premanshu Bhushan 
> 

Re: reformatting all miniboxes

[Steve Litt]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 05:28:17 + (UTC)
Premanshu Bhushan  drpreman...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 I have been writing a book in lyx. I am using a lot of shaded boxes
 to highlight information. Is there a way to redesign all of them by
 redefinig them in preamble. For example, can i write a code to reduce
 the width to 0.8 of text width and make them all centered. otherwise
 i will have to manually select all more than 100 boxes and declare
 its property. it defeats the purpose of using styles rather than
 manually formatting. I have been experimenting with renewcommand and
 renewenvironment codes but without much success.
 Sincerely hoping for a reply

What I do is I make a style, named after its purpose, exclusively for
situations conforming to that purpose, that defines the appearance.

If all 100 of your boxes have a single purpose, you need only one
style. I have styles for Tip, Note, Warning and Danger. Often they look
the same, but I have the option of making them look different by
modifying the applicable style. I think what I do is similar to what
you're asking.

If you're wanting to modify boxes applied directly, that's harder, but
probably doable. Unless, of course, in each box, you used specific
commands and numbers.

HTH

SteveT

Steve Litt*  http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training  *  Human Performance

Re: reformatting all miniboxes

[Steve Litt]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 05:28:17 + (UTC)
Premanshu Bhushan  drpreman...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 I have been writing a book in lyx. I am using a lot of shaded boxes
 to highlight information. Is there a way to redesign all of them by
 redefinig them in preamble. For example, can i write a code to reduce
 the width to 0.8 of text width and make them all centered. otherwise
 i will have to manually select all more than 100 boxes and declare
 its property. it defeats the purpose of using styles rather than
 manually formatting. I have been experimenting with renewcommand and
 renewenvironment codes but without much success.
 Sincerely hoping for a reply

What I do is I make a style, named after its purpose, exclusively for
situations conforming to that purpose, that defines the appearance.

If all 100 of your boxes have a single purpose, you need only one
style. I have styles for Tip, Note, Warning and Danger. Often they look
the same, but I have the option of making them look different by
modifying the applicable style. I think what I do is similar to what
you're asking.

If you're wanting to modify boxes applied directly, that's harder, but
probably doable. Unless, of course, in each box, you used specific
commands and numbers.

HTH

SteveT

Steve Litt*  http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training  *  Human Performance

Re: reformatting all miniboxes

[Steve Litt]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 05:28:17 + (UTC)
Premanshu Bhushan   wrote:

> Hi,
> I have been writing a book in lyx. I am using a lot of shaded boxes
> to highlight information. Is there a way to redesign all of them by
> redefinig them in preamble. For example, can i write a code to reduce
> the width to 0.8 of text width and make them all centered. otherwise
> i will have to manually select all more than 100 boxes and declare
> its property. it defeats the purpose of using styles rather than
> manually formatting. I have been experimenting with renewcommand and
> renewenvironment codes but without much success.
> Sincerely hoping for a reply

What I do is I make a style, named after its purpose, exclusively for
situations conforming to that purpose, that defines the appearance.

If all 100 of your boxes have a single purpose, you need only one
style. I have styles for Tip, Note, Warning and Danger. Often they look
the same, but I have the option of making them look different by
modifying the applicable style. I think what I do is similar to what
you're asking.

If you're wanting to modify boxes applied directly, that's harder, but
probably doable. Unless, of course, in each box, you used specific
commands and numbers.

HTH

SteveT

Steve Litt*  http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training  *  Human Performance

reformatting all miniboxes

[Premanshu Bhushan]

Hi,
I have been writing a book in lyx. I am using a lot of shaded boxes to 
highlight information. Is there a way to redesign all of them by redefinig 
them in preamble. For example, can i write a code to reduce the width to 0.8 
of text width and make them all centered. otherwise i will have to manually 
select all more than 100 boxes and declare its property. it defeats the 
purpose of using styles rather than manually formatting. I have been 
experimenting with renewcommand and renewenvironment codes but without much 
success.
Sincerely hoping for a reply

reformatting all miniboxes

[Premanshu Bhushan]

Hi,
I have been writing a book in lyx. I am using a lot of shaded boxes to 
highlight information. Is there a way to redesign all of them by redefinig 
them in preamble. For example, can i write a code to reduce the width to 0.8 
of text width and make them all centered. otherwise i will have to manually 
select all more than 100 boxes and declare its property. it defeats the 
purpose of using styles rather than manually formatting. I have been 
experimenting with renewcommand and renewenvironment codes but without much 
success.
Sincerely hoping for a reply

reformatting all miniboxes

[Premanshu Bhushan]

Hi,
I have been writing a book in lyx. I am using a lot of shaded boxes to 
highlight information. Is there a way to redesign all of them by redefinig 
them in preamble. For example, can i write a code to reduce the width to 0.8 
of text width and make them all centered. otherwise i will have to manually 
select all more than 100 boxes and declare its property. it defeats the 
purpose of using styles rather than manually formatting. I have been 
experimenting with renewcommand and renewenvironment codes but without much 
success.
Sincerely hoping for a reply