On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 9:39 PM Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Suppose that I have created a new enumerate-like enumerate, say > > xenumerate. How can I use it from inside LyX without recourse to ERT? > > > A couple of possibilities come to mind. If you want to use the new > version exclusively (and not use good old "enumerate"), you could > redefine the enumerate environment itself. Assuming you want xenumerate > to coexist with enumerate, you can define a layout for it, either in the > Local Layout portion of the document settings (if you only want it for > one document) or in a module file installed in your local layouts directory. > > Guessing that you want the last one (i.e., add this along side regular > enumerations and make it available to any document that wants it), I > would suggest looking at /usr/share/lyx/layouts/stdlists.inc for > inspiration. (That's the Linux path; on other OSes, your path may > differ.) Look for the section that begins "Style Enumerate" and copy it > to your local module file (which will also need the proper header > stuff). Change the first line of the style to "Style Xenumerate" (or > whatever), change the LatexName entry to "xenumerate", and see if > anything else needs tweaking (quite possibly not). > > Help > Customization has lots of details about creating your own modules > and paragraph styles. Note that you will have to expressly include the > module in any document where you want to use the style. (You could hack > stdlists.inc itself, but then you would need to repeat the hack any time > an upgrade/reinstallation overwrote /usr/share/lyx/layouts.)
Thanks, Paul, for your very valuable help! I am going now to ponder about your suggestions and choose the one that fits best my needs. Paul
