On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 05:54:54PM -0500, ll...@writersglen.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My co-author and I are trying to typeset a computer programming book with
> Lyx. We're able to create fancy colored boxes to display computer code with
> the following:
>
> New Color Box Type cBoxA1colback=gray!25!white,colbacktitle=black,
> colframe=black!75!black, fonttitle=\bfseries, title=\listno\,#1,
> width=\textwidth
>
> The goal is to display programming code noted below in these boxes. Our book
> has some 200 code boxes, so we need a very efficient method to accomplish
> this. But our efforts fails.
>
> If we select Insert/Custom Inset/Colored Box1 and enter plain text into the
> custom colored box, it compiles with this error, LaTex Error: Missing
> \begin{document}, but properly displays the box in PDF.
>
> If we enter either of the first two lines of the sample code below, e.g.:
>
> .../site/src$ mkdir n_dbs
> .../site/src$ cd n_dbs
>
> ...the system compiles with the missing begin document error, but displays
> properly in PDF.
>
> But if we enter both of those lines, much less the full sample code stanza
> shown below, the system throws errors (see below sample code) and fails to
> compile.
>
> So now we're stuck. We're at a total loss as to how to solve this problem. Hi Lloyd, If you make a minimal example .lyx file (please read [1]), and post it to the list, it might be easier for people to jump in and try to figure out the problem. Best, Scott [1] https://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/MinimalExample
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