Hi Riki,
Thanks for your help. You can probably tell that I'm new at this and
I've used chatgpt for help.
I think the parIndent, Parskip and BottomSep only affect the edit window
so I nopped them.
I think {} indicates title text string.
I'm puzzled by how {\vspace{n\baselineskip}} works. I seem to need both
\vspace before and after the {}. If there is no \vspace following the
{} the \vspace before {} has no effect.
If there is a \vspace following the {}, {\vspace{n\baselineskip}} before
{} seems to define the number of lines following the text in the PDF.
Can you suggest any reference material to explain some of this stuff?
Regards
Ken
Format 60
Style grammertitle
Category MainText
LatexType Environment
LatexName grammertitle
Margin First_Dynamic
# ParIndent 0
# ParSkip 0
# BottomSep 1.0
Preamble
\newenvironment{grammertitle}{\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}}
{\vspace{1\baselineskip}}
{}
{\vspace{4\baselineskip}}
EndPreamble
End
Richard Kimberly Heck wrote on 8/10/26 9:16 AM:
On 8/9/26 12:57 AM, ken rector via lyx-users wrote:
Using Lyx 2.3.0. and Local Layout I would like to make a paragraph
with no indentation, some text and followed by a single blank line to
separate it from the next paragraph. Below is layout language
suggested by chatgpt. The Lyx Layout validate operation says 'Layout
is valid!'.
I type:
"Title
Grammar description sentence."
This gives two paragraphs of type 'Standard' seperated by a simple
return.
Put the cursor on the word "Title" and select type grammertitle from
the drop down.
The edit window shows a blank line inserted between "Title" and
"Grammar description" as it should, but with a default indent (about
6em).
The PDF document shows "Title Grammar description." all on one line
with the default indent.
It seems that ParIndent has no effect and BottomSep 1.0 only affects
the edit window.
Is there a better way?
You need to provide some LaTeX code for this new style. ParIndent and
BottomSep only affect the LyX display. So you need something like:
Format 60
Style grammertitle
Category MainText
LatexType command
LatexName grammartitle
Margin First_Dynamic
ParIndent 0
BottomSep 1.0
Preamble
\newcommand[1]\grammartitle{ YOUR LATEX HERE }
EndPreamble
End
By the way, LyX 2.3.0 is WAY out of date. It was released over 8 years
ago.
Riki
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