Christian F. wrote:
1. Inserting a blank page
You need a trick, because LaTeX tries to avoid blank pages. In the attached example I inserted a phantom to the blank page, but you can also use the command
\vspace*{\fill}Why do you need blank pages?
2. Beginning at the middle of a page
because the space is the first on the page, you need the starred version of \vspace. In your case use
\vspace*{0.5\textheight}in ERT.
The page lengths are explained here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tips/paperLayout/paperDistances.png
regards Uwe
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass book \language english \inputencoding auto \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize Default \paperpackage a4 \use_geometry 0 \use_amsmath 0 \use_natbib 0 \use_numerical_citations 0 \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation skip \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle empty \bullet 1 1 34 -1 \end_bullet \bullet 2 2 35 -1 \end_bullet \bullet 3 2 7 -1 \end_bullet
\layout Standard
\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed
\layout Standard
\backslash
vspace*{0.5
\backslash
textheight}
\end_inset
This is the half height of the page.
\layout Standard
\pagebreak_bottom
The next page is empty.
\layout Standard
\pagebreak_bottom
\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed
\layout Standard
\backslash
phantom{}
\end_inset
\layout Standard
Now the text starts again
\the_end
