LyX ⇒ writing a book - more styles

[Danny20142015]

Hi,
I have switched to lyx few days ago from MS word. I have no background in Latex programming. I am writing a technical book on a programming language. When I write names of functions, I wish them to be connected to a certain style which will be defined as bold with some color. I need it to be a style (or what ever it is called) so I can change the definition of this style in the future as I find fit. For now I didn't find any solution, so I just each time select the words I want, right mouse click and bold them. Can anyone help how to solve this ?

Thanks,
Dan

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

LaTeX is a macro language, you can always define new macros like

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\usepackage{xcolor}
\colorlet{function}{blue!50!white}
\newcommand{\function}[1]{{\color{function}\bfseries#1}

You can use it inside LyX using ERT-Boxes. But since you are familiar with programming languages, i think using LaTeX-code directly will be more comfortable for you.

Packages like listings can help you in formatting program code.

[Danny20142015]

Thanks