Paragraphs in italic

luc4 · Post by **luc4** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:28 am

Hi! I'm writing a book and I chose 'book' as document class. I'm using example paragraphs to insert some examples, but I was wondering if it is possible to change the style of the font, leaving the rest unchanged. I would like the example to be italic instead of normal... is this possible without redefining the entire document class?
Thanks!

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mas · Post by **mas** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 3:39 pm

luc4 wrote:I would like the example to be italic instead of normal... is this possible without redefining the entire document class?

The following should work :

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\begin{itshape}
your example ...
\end{itshape}

Regards,

sridhar

Post by **localghost** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 3:51 pm

There is no itshape environment (although it works) but only the \itshape switch.

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\itshape
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
\normalshape

Best regards
Thorsten

luc4 · Post by **luc4** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:07 pm

I'm not an expert of Latex, but won't this only set to italic what's inside the switch? I would like every example of my document to be italic, even the examples I've already written. Is this possible? I used a paragraph style 'Example' present in the menu of LyX, which adds 'Example a.b' to the beginning of the paragraph. Is it possible to change the style of these paragraphs?
Thanks!

mas · Post by **mas** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:42 am

For that, you need to define an environment/macro. But, we still do not know how you have set up your Examples.

Regards,

sridhar

luc4 · Post by **luc4** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:33 am

I don't know the setup as it is already defined. I used the document class 'book' with some modules: 'Theorems (AMS)' and 'Theorems (By Chapter)'. When those are added to the LyX document in the settings I get the paragraph style 'Example' and many others. I would like to change that. Maybe I should overwrite it somehow because I don't even know where it is defined...
Thanks again!

EDIT: I solved! It was sufficient to edit theorems-ams.inc. Thanks!

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