Oh never mind, I already solved this problem and forgot I'd solved it. I made the title LyX environment with a LatexType of command, and had that command set a variable, and then the box text environment used that variable.
SteveT On Thursday 17 May 2007 11:47, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > All my books contain, interspersed throughout regular text, boxes breaking > out special stuff. The boxes are centered and have slightly narrower > margins than the rest of the text. Each box has a large box title on the > top line, and the text of the message to the reader in the rest of the box. > Titles are often things like NOTE, TIP, WARNING, CAUTION, but often are > completely ad-hock text, which is why I can't simply create an environment > for each. > > Ideally title and text would go in a minipage, which I can make shaded. In > fact, I could do that by setting the title text with ERT, and then putting > the box text in a box environment which prints the title (which was > declared in ERT) before printing the text. > > The trouble with that approach is the title won't be seen in the LyX GUI, > which confuses me as an author. > > Another approach is to use an environment that has an argument. However, I > know of no way that LyX can pass an arbitrary argument (as opposed to one > fixed within the LyX environment declaration) to the LaTeX environment. > > What I'd REALLY like is a way to make an environment, call it \boxtitle, > that does nothing but use any text within that environment to set a > variable. Then the box environment, call it \box, would simply turn that > text into a title within a minipage. > > Meanwhile, within LyX itself, \boxtitle (actually the LyX environment that > calls it), would look like just another environemnt and show up perfectly > in LyX. > > So does anyone know a way to create a LaTeX environment that, instead of > printing the text it's applied to, sets a variable with the text it's > applied to? If not, does anyone know another way to do what I need to do? > > Thanks > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware > http://www.troubleshooters.com/
