On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Bruce Pourciau <bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu> wrote: > At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated with > indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc, which I would > like formatted flush left with some vertical space before and after. For > various reasons, I wish to avoid using the AMS theorem, lemma, etc, > environments to do this. I've been using soft returns (command-return on a > Mac) -- two above and two below -- but this method results in too much > vertical space around the assertion. I could also use normal paragraphing, > where I insert a \noindent and adjust the vertical spacing above and below, > but this seems cumbersome. Any easier, more systematic methods for this? > You could come up with a new LaTeX command/environment and then hack a corresponding module in LyX; just configure the thingy once, as you prefer it to be, and then use the beauty of LaTeX and LyX. But Steve should have more to say about this. (Hint: perform a search on his site [1] as I'm pretty sure he has some poetry on the subject.) [1] http://www.troubleshooters.com/troubleshooters.htm
A less LaTeX-ish way of doing things would be to insert a vertical space (Insert > Formatting > V space), adjust the dimensions once, to your liking, and then copy and paste every time you need it. Regards Liviu > Bruce > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
