Bulk changing environments in Lyx

[Steve Litt]

Dr Paul Verschueren said on Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:12:10 +0000

>Dear all -
>I just had to change the AMS document type for a long paper.

Does long paper really require a change of doctype? I think you can do
what you need by putting the following two lines in your
Docuument=>settings=>Latex_preamble:

================================================
\pageheight=14in %Paper height
\pagewidth=8.5in  %Paper width
================================================

The preceding works as long as you compile with luatex, which is the
best way to compile anyway. I don't know about the AMS document type,
but my best guess would be it would accommodate the preceding.
Naturally you'd need to change all the margins in LyX, but that's easy.

>I have made heavy use of the paragraph/subparagraph environments, but
>these do not exist(!) in the new doctype. Is there any way of doing a
>find/replace via Lyx? If not, is there any alternative to hacking the
>Lyx source, and does anyone foresee any gotchas with this approach?
>(I'll obviously take a backup first). Many thanks

If worst comes to worst, you could create a new document type,
based on whatever new document type you are moving to, in a layout
file, and just create new paragraph/subparagraphs environments.

SteveT

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