From lyx-users  Mon Nov 24 15:45:50 2008
From: Charles de Miramon <cmiramon () kde-france ! org>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:45:50 +0000
To: lyx-users
Subject: Going from custom charstyles to module
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Hello

I'm starting to move my real work to LyX 1.6 and I have problem with the new
modules.

I had in LyX 1.5 some semantic custom markup for citations in Latin and Old
French in a mycharstyles.inc file

# Personal character styles definition

Format 2
CharStyle Latin
        LatexType             Command
        LatexName             latin
        Font
          Family              Sans
        EndFont
        LabelFont
          Family              Roman
          Color               blue
        EndFont
Preamble
\newcommand{\latin}[1]{\og~#1~\fg}
EndPreamble
End

CharStyle Ancien
        LatexType             Command
        LatexName             ancien
        Font
          Family              Sans
        EndFont
        LabelFont
          Family              Roman
          Color               blue
        EndFont
Preamble
\newcommand{\ancien}[1]{\og~#1~\fg}
EndPreamble
End

I have created a module in LyX 1.6 (I could not find any documentation about
the syntax of modules and the new flexible insets)

Latin.module
#\DeclareLyXModule{Latin}
#DescriptionBegin
#Définit des styles spécifiques pour les textes en latin et en ancien
français
#DescriptionEnd

#Charles de Miramon 24/11/08


Format 11
InsetLayout Latin
        LyxType               charstyle
        LabelString           Latin
        LatexType             Command
        LatexName             latin
        Font
          Family              Sans
        EndFont
        LabelFont
          Family              Roman
          Color               blue
        EndFont
Preamble
\newcommand{\latin}[1]{\og~#1~\fg}
EndPreamble
End

InsetLayout Ancien
        LyxType         charstyle
        LabelString           Ancien
        LatexType       Command
        LatexName       ancien
        Font
          Family              Sans
        EndFont
        LabelFont
          Family              Roman
          Color               blue
        EndFont
Preamble
\newcommand{\ancien}[1]{\og~#1~\fg}
EndPreamble
End

It works for new files but does not translate the old files.

The old LyX code was :
\begin_inset CharStyle Latin
status inlined

and the new one seems to be :
\begin_inset Flex Latin
status collapsed

Questions :
1) Is there a way to automatically transform the old custom charstyle
formatting to the module ?

2) Why do we have in the new syntax a 'status collapsed' ? Charstyles are
not insets that can be closed or opened

3) I'm a bit mixed up between the old custom charstyles, flexible insets,
modules. What is going to be deprecated ?

Cheers,
Charles


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