R S Milton wrote:
Hi,
I am facing two problems with blank lines:
1. How to insert a blank line where I need one.
Problem:
When a Enumeration style paragraph (for that matter, any theorem like
style)
is followed by Standard style paragraph, LyX does not start a new paragraph
--- no para skip, no para indent. The latex file generated by LyX has
no blank line between them.
Right after an enumeration, it is common to start a new paragraph,
not just continue a paragraph. This requires a blank line to be
inserted. LyX does not allow to insert a blank line and start a "new"
paragraph.
It only allows to "continue" a paragraph, in Standard style.
Need:
How to insert a physical blank line in LyX (so that there is this blank
line
in the exported latex file) before a paragraph starts?
Hack:
Right now, I am inserting an ERT which has just a %. Then LyX allows to
start a really "new" paragraph
That's pretty much how I would do it, except that the ERT can be empty
(you don't need to type '%') so long as it is in a new standard environment.
If you want to automate this, you can modify whichever .bind file you
use to bind the following to an unused key combination:
command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \par{};
Position the cursor at the start of what should be the new, indented
paragraph and invoke the key combination there.
2. How to avoid a blank line where I do not need one. This seems to be
more serious.
Problem:
When a Enumeration style paragraph is followed by a nested Enumeration
styel paragraph, LyX inserts a blank line as seen in the exported latex
file, leading to a para skip before the nested list.
Again, it is common to start the nested list NOT as a new paragraph within
an outer list.
Need:
How to avoid the physical blank line before the nested list, in the
exported latex file?
You might want to file a bug report/enhancement request on this (at
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/). I didn't see anything in there about it.
(I'm not a TeXpert, so I don't know if this will set off some
theological debate about proper spacing. I'm inclined to prefer less
vertical space myself.)
Meanwhile, one workaround is to position the cursor at the start of the
first nested item, click Insert -> Special Formatting -> Vertical space
..., select Custom, and specify a size of -1 ex. What shows up in the
GUI is less than aesthetic, but what shows up in the output seems to be
about right.
An alternative to doing this repeatedly is to change the vertical
spacing for enumerations in the preamble. See
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted#toc36 for various solutions. I'm not
sure if there's a way to do this that reduces the vertical space between
a list item and a nested sublist without also reducing the vertical
space between the outermost list and the surrounding text, but there
might be.
/Paul
