LyX ⇒ Paragraphs in italic

[luc4]

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!

[mas]

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

[localghost]

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]

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]

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]

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!