Command to put string in both the LyX authoring environment and the finished PDF?

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 6/20/21 5:39 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a local layout, based on Book-extsizes, for my new book. I have
> no idea what the book's title will be yet, and I sure nuff don't want
> to have to search all instances of that title and replace them every
> time I get a better idea for the title.
>
> Soooo, what I want to do is put something in my local layout to
> articulate the title, both in the LyX authoring environment and in the
> compiled PDF, showing the title in a specific appearance. I tried to do
> it as a character style, as follows:
>
> ========================================================================
> \definecolor{titlebodytextcolor}{HTML}{cc0000}
>
> % ### Character style for book title within body text
> \newcommand{\chartitlebodytextL}[0]{{\color{titlebodytextcolor}My
> Current Title As Of Today}}%
>
> CharStyle CharTitleInBody
> Font
> 	Series	Bold
> 	Color   Red
> EndFont
> LabelFont
> 	Series	Bold
> 	Size    Larger
> 	Color   Red
> EndLabelFont
> LatexName	chartitlebodytextL
> LatexType	Command
> LabelString     "My Current Title As Of Today"
> End
> ========================================================================
>
> If I apply the character style CharTitleInBody to an empty string in
> LyX, the exact right thing happens in the PDF, but in the LyX
> authoring environment the title appears under the character style inset
> and also under the following text, which is very disturbing if you're
> trying to copy-edit your book in the LyX environment.
>
> Does anybody know what I can do to make the text appear inline, instead
> of underneath, within the LyX authoring environment?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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Steve,

This is not an answer to your question, but possibly something simpler. 
If you load the 'titling' package in the document preamble, you can put 
anything you want in the document's title environment and then just use 
\thetitle (or maybe \thetitle{}) in ERT any place you want to repeat the 
title. If you get the hots for a new title later, you just have to 
change it in the title environment. This doesn't deal directly with the 
funky formatting of the title, but it does eliminate the 
search-and-replace aspect.

Paul