Richard,
Thanks a lot. I got this to work finally. I had initially tried something
like that before writing this question, but quite naively. I simply said
\def\tableofcontents{\indici} and that gave me a stack overflow. This is
because indici calls \tableofcontents internally. I now redefined it by
copying the code for indici and placing it in the definition of
tableofcontents. This time, I replaced the \tableofcontents with \oldtoc. So
now my definition looks like:
\def\tableofcontents{
<loads of stuff before that....>
\iffrontmatter\else\frontmattertrue\fi
\oldtoc
<loads of stuff after that....>
}
When you replied to my email, I decided there has to be some way to do this
only using this redefinition trick. I was stupid not to think of this
earlier, but thanks a lot for your reply that guarantees that modifying
Insets won't work for me. The more I thought it was possible to customize
Insets, the more I was trying it. I had spent 16 hours modifying Insets and
it didn't work. It took me just 2 mins to fix this though. I think I just
needed someone to tell me that the solution is not in that route.
Thanks,
Balaji
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:18 AM, rgheck <rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote:
> Balaji wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a LaTeX class called toptesi that has a special latex command
>> \indici
>> that produces the table of contents, list of figures and list of tables
>> etc., in a specific format. I want to use this using the Inset features of
>> LyX. Now I know that you can insert LaTeX commands in LyX, but this is
>> more
>> for my mother than for me, and so she cannot understand this. I want to
>> create a layout file that will modify the CommandInset for the TOC to
>> generate a different code.
>>
>>
>>
> This cannot be done without modifying the code. It was a natural idea to
> try it with InsetLayout, but that only works with collapsable insets, like
> ERT, footnotes, etc.
>
> The present CommandInset for TOC generates the following:
>> \begin_inset CommandInset toc
>> LatexCommand tableofcontents
>>
>> \end_inset
>>
>> Instead of producing this, I want LyX to generate the following code:
>>
>> \begin_inset CommandInset toc
>> LatexCommand indici
>>
>> \end_inset
>>
>>
>>
> No, this isn't what you want to do. What you want is to change the LaTeX
> export, not the LyX code. So where LyX generates:
> \tableofcontents{}
> you want what? Answer that and your solution will be to put this in the
> preamble (which you can do in a layout file):
> \let\oldtoc=\tableofcontents
> \def\tableofcontents{NEW CODE}
> This trick is used in the beamer layouts.
>
> Richard
>
>
