LyX-Code layout

[Daniel]

On 2020-08-01 15:27, Joel Kulesza wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 3:51 AM Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes at lyx.org 
> <mailto:lasgouttes at lyx.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Le 1 août 2020 08:41:32 GMT+02:00, Richard Kimberly Heck
>     <rikiheck at lyx.org <mailto:rikiheck at lyx.org>> a écrit :
>      >No, but there was some discussion. I suspect this one could also be
>      >changed.
>      >
>      >Maybe start a new thread with a subject-line like s/LyX-Code/Code/.
>      >Then
>      >again, I'd certainly want to hear from JMarc, and he won't be back for
>      >a
>      >while....
> 
>     If you were to ask me, I would answer that LyXCode should be killed
>     (i.e. moved to a legacy module) and that we should add something
>     based on alltt instead. LyXCode is just bad LaTeX and is flawed. If
>     I remember well, one can have one empty line but not two consecutive
>     ones, for example. And it does not accept multiple spaces without
>     using ~.
> 
>     This new thing could be named Code, although the name does not
>     strike me as very good. We have Listings for code.
> 
> 
>  From my interactions with users, renaming LyXCode would help reduce 
> confusion.  I agree with JMarc that Code isn't necessarily more clear 
> (and is generally handled by code listings).  Other applications/HTML 
> have called this "Preformatted Text".  This is lengthy, but maybe more 
> clear?
> 
> Thanks,
> Joel
> 

Maybe "Preformatted" would be enough?

Daniel