On Wednesday 11 July 2007, you wrote: > > I am just trying out listings and it seems pretty good. One problem I > > see is I just needed to re-indent a bunch of code (happens to be python, > > so indent matters). I thought maybe I'd just edit the lyx file in emacs, > > but found out that the form of the listing in the lyx file was not very > > friendly to this. > > This is why I tend to use external files as listings child documents. > It is easier to modify an external file than doing so within lyx. An > advantage of this approach is that you can use 'firstline', > 'lastline' options to include part of the file. There is also a more > flexible linerange option in the latest listings package. >
I can't figure out how to use external file with lyx. I only see 1 kind of insert for 'program listing', and nothing in the listing options that looks like a file name.
