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

Landon Blake lblake at ksninc.com
Mon Jun 9 11:43:53 EDT 2008


I've taken a break from any OSGeo writing for the last few weeks. I'm
trying to get (at least partially) back on the ball. I'd like to get a
LaTex version of my metadata chapter for the Free GIS Book done this
month, and then I'd like to do some more work on the dictionary.

 

I've got LyX and MikiTex installed on my laptop, and I'd like to try
using those tools to prepare the LaTex files. However, I seem to have
run into trouble with one aspect of LaTex. I thought I would check here
to see if someone had a solution.

 

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?

 

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.

 

Landon

 

 



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