inline code and other formatting issues

[Paul Rubin]

On 2/8/26 22:00, Ross Boylan wrote:
> How do I tell LyX (2.3.6) that some inline text is code? In LaTeX it 
> would be \lstinline`some code`, using the listings package, which I 
> gather LyX does.
>
> There is an answer at https://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/modules#toc4, but 
> it includes a dead link.*  A web search doesn't turn up the file, 
> listings.module, anywhere else, or does it seem to be in the Debian 
> packages in my (old) distribution (Debian 11/bullseye) I use.  Other 
> answers on the net refer to modules that I don't see.
>
> Perhaps it's already built in, but I don't see it mentioned in the 
> documentation.  In particular, I don't know how to indicate that some 
> text should be in this mode.
>
> More generally, if I have a bunch of special types of text, in LaTeX 
> I'd define a macro for each.  What do I do in LyX?
>
> I realize I could just drop into raw LaTeX/ERB and give the commands 
> as I would in regular LaTeX, but I am hoping there's something more 
> elegant.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ross Boylan
>
> *The link is to the Max Planck Institute and the author of the code is 
> Laura Dietz.  She is not listed in their current directory, and I 
> presume all the links to her stuff on 
> https://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/modules are broken.  She appears to have 
> moved to the University of New Hampshire; I don't see the files there 
> either.
>
I don't know about LyX 2.36, but in 2.4.4 you can select the text, 
execute Insert > Program Listing, then right-click the listing, click 
Settings... and check Inline listing.

Paul
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