Dear LyX experts, for a brouchure I want to use coloured boxes wrapped with the normal text as design elemet to summarize the main points of a chapter. To that extent I defined in the Preamble a new float type (using float.sty) __________________________ \newfloat {floatBox}{htb}{mp} _________________________ _______________________
and a box environment (after H. Voss Lyx Latex Page) and two floating variants of it and their LyX layouts. ___________________________ \newenvironment{myBox} {% \noindent% [EMAIL PROTECTED] \begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\columnwidth}% \vspace{0.5ex}% }{% \end{minipage}% \end{lrbox}% [EMAIL PROTECTED] \vspace{0.5ex}% } ______________________________ the extension of thist Box to a Float gives the expected result. ________________________________ \newenvironment{myFloatBox}{% \begin{floatBox}% \begin{myBox}% }{% \end{myBox}% \end{floatBox} } _________________________________ however when I define a wrapped environment using wrapfig.sty _______________________________ \newenvironment{myWrapBox}{% \begin{wrapfloat}{floatBox}{O}[1.5cm]{0.55\columnwidth}% \begin{myBox}% }{% \end{myBox}% \end{wrapfloat} } _____________________________________ the box is shifted to the end of the text. When I use the myBox Layout and enclose it in ERT with the wrapfig environmetn I get the expected results. (???). Has anybody an explanation for that behavior? I have also another Question: Is it possible to define a lyx-style which results in a latex-command with more than one argument? I'd like to introduce the units package into lyx, but to that purpose I need more than one argument {optional as well as mandatory} as the commands are defined as follows: \unit[val]{unit} \unitfrac[val]{num}{denom}. with val as the Value to be displayed and num and denom as numerator and denominator in a fraction. The customisation guide isn't clear in that respect. TIA -- Dr. Joachim Heidemeier Tel. +49-30-8903-2780 Fachgebiet II 3.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Umweltbundesamt, Bismarckplatz 1 D-14191 Berlin