On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:14 pm, Georg Baum wrote:
> Does \vspace*{1cm} in ERT do what you want? Or do you want an empty space
> in the middle of a text row? Then try \hspace*{5cm}.
Many thanks for this tip from me, as well. I am a poet and novelist and the
various white spaces in the middle of lines you may have seen in modern
poetry are of the utmost importance in terms of the cessura and breath. So
now I know how to produce such in Lyx, although up to now HTML was good
enough.
I have been using Lyx for about four years or so, from memory, but have just
joined this list after reading a comment on using Lyx for humanities papers
on the website. For such a use Lyx seems more then adequate. I started using
Lyx after needing a front-end to LaTex, since I could not remember the
preambles or various commands and Lyx proved more then that, much more. I got
also a valuable education in using LaTex, as well.
Most recently I again downloaded the source code after a clean install of
Linux Slackware 10, done for various reasons to do with my so called obsolete
hardware, but the QT version of Lyx I wanted to use (rather then the Xforms
I had used previously) would not compile and failed twice in the same way. I
haven't gone back and worked out why but assume this may be some sort of
library problem to do with this version of Slackware since version 10.1 of
Slackware which I updated to compiled without a problem, other then it takes
two hours to compile Lyx. ( I should add I did not upgrade KDE or so far as I
know the QT libs. So it may have been the x libs???? )
Anyways, I just wanted to really pass on my thanks to the Lyx developers for
providing such a very useful application for writers. I usually write first
drafts with a text editor, also using console text utilities provided by
GNU/Linux and then import this to Lyx for formatting and revision. With
large projects like a novel or long poetry collections I then export back to
text and rewrite and revise again with a text editor and console text
utilities and then again take this to Lyx for formatting and revision. Also
the LaTex export is very useful for my notebook computer, a Toshiba 3400 with
Slackware 4, without X. So this modular design which Lyx fits into following
the UNIX tradition is of vital importance, as well.
Finally, just on mathematical typesetting, in the days before Knuth and
Computer Typesetting mathematical typesetting was an art in itself and very
expensive. (I worked in publishing in those days.) Tex made mathematical
typesetting cheap and far more accessible, although from what I read, it
would be a shame if Knuth is only remembered for this and not his
contributions to pure mathematics which one day I hope to read more about.
best wishes, and many thanks again to the Lyx creators,
Chris Jones.
