Re: inline code and other formatting issues

Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:10:03 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.editors.lyx.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/11/26 9:41 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 5:03 PM Richard Kimberly Heck 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>     On 2/10/26 5:36 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:
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>>     On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM Richard Kimberly Heck
>>     <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>         You could probably write a module, similar to the ones in
>>         logicalmkup.module, that would wrap the text in whatever
>>         LaTeX you wanted.
>>
>>         Riki
>>
>>     That's interesting: that module already defines an `Inset Layout
>>     Flex` style for code.  But I can't see any way to apply it from
>>     the GUI.
>
>     Edit> Custom Text Styles> Code. You can bind "flex-insert Code" to
>     a key sequence if you wish, or make a toolbar button for it. But
>     that is basically just a font, like <code> in HTML. It doesn't do
>     syntax highlighting or anything. So you may want something a bit
>     more sophisticated. But it's probably just a matter of defining a
>     new LaTeX command that will do what you want, and then mimic the
>     Code definition as far as LyX is concerned.
>
>     Riki
>
> The closest I can get is Edit | Text Style | Customized...  The 
> resulting popup has no options for Code that I can see.  There is a 
> (sub) box labelled `Semantic Markup` with check boxes for `Emphasized` 
> and `Noun` but not `Code`. I checked font families and languages as 
> well, but they don't have it.  Maybe this is a LyX 2.3 vs 2.4 difference.

Did you load the Logical Markup module? That's under Document> Settings> 
Modules.

Riki

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