[OSGeo-Edu] Getting to work with Lyx and LaTex

[Tim Michelsen]

> I’d like to have specific categories of text rendered using specific 
> fonts. This is similar to how the <code> tag works in HTML. Is it 
> possible to do this with LaTex? Can you define your own custom “tags” to 
> control styling? For example: Can I define a “definition” tag and then 
> assign a font to this tag when producing PDF output?
If you want to visualise source code blocks use the listings 
function/package:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX15#toc11

> I’m not a heavy user of LaTex, so I hope that my question makes sense. 

> Perhaps I am looking for more control over the appearance of a document 
> generated from LaTex than is really possible.
Try not to think about appearence. In lyx it's more about logical 
separation of the different parts.

The manuals of the program are pretty upto date.

Kind regards,
Timmie