How to write raw text verbatim in LyX?

Question

I want to write PlantUML diagrams from within LyX, and I want to put the result right into the document itself. To do so, I attempted to create a comment environment, in which I put the diagram description.

Basically, PlantUML scans a directory for a bunch of text like the following:

@startuml foo.png
(A) --> (B) : x
(B) --> (C) : y
@enduml

...converts it on the fly to something GraphViz understands, then writes the output in foo.png.

To do this, I tried to put the PlantUML source in a comment block. However, this results in the following output in the LyX file:

\begin_inset Note Note
status open

\begin_layout Plain Layout
@startuml foo.png
\end_layout

<snip/>

\end_inset

I tried to work around this by putting the source in an ERT block, but this simply adds a \begin_inset ERT, without removing the \begin_layout lines. How can I work around this?

Answer 1

I don't have the same problem, but to document fully what I see: your Plant UML lines when placed in a Tex code block in my Lyx 1.6.8 are represented in the .lyx file so:

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset ERT
status open

\begin_layout Plain Layout

@startuml foo.png 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout

(A) --> (B) : x 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout

(B) --> (C) : y 
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout

@enduml
\end_layout

\end_inset


\end_layout

Using Lyx's export to Latex gives the original three lines back in the exported .tex file.

I count this as "works for me" - do you see or want a different behaviour?