Hi,I've been playing with LyX lately. I can say that I am impressed! It has much improved since the last time I looked at it, 6 years ago. It really looks as a nice alternative to writing painful plain LaTeX by hand.
Now, I have possibly found a little problem. I can't figure out if I missed some workaround in the documentation or if it is an "undocumented feature" (i.e. a bug that I should submit in the bug tracker). When I write using LyX 1.5.5 on OSX 10.15.3:
Some text followed by an itemized list:
* Some item.
* Another item.
Then some text that follows.
LyX generates the following LaTeX code:
Some text followed by an itemized list:
\begin{itemize}
\item Some item.
\item Another item.
\end{itemize}
Then some text that follows.
Why does LyX generate a blank line between "list:" and
"\begin{itemize}"? I have not been able to prevent LyX from doing so.
Yes, it does make a small difference in the output, that you might not
have noticed. It becomes more visible when you play with spacing (e.g.
\tightlists when using a memoir class). To get the itemized list to be
considered as part of the preceding paragraph, I came up with the
following ugly workarounds:
1. don't use LyX lists at all; instead, write all of
"\[begin|item|end]" commands as embedded TeX (ERT), or
2. use the verbatim package to add multi-line comments using ERT:
"... list:[[ \begin{comment}]]
* [[\end{comment} \begin{itemize} \item]] Some item.
* Another Item.
Then..."
Of course, neither is satisfactory. This is quite annoying, as lists are
rather common in my texts. Have I missed something? How hard would it be
for me to change whatever template LyX uses to generate the list header
(I know programming, but I am not a LyX/TeX/LaTeX expert)? Should I file
a bug report about this?
EtienneP.S. Note that LyX seems quite inconsistent in putting a blank line before the item list, but not after it! As it is quite easy to add a blank line using ERT, maybe LyX shouldn't add a blank line, neither above nor below the list?
-- Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. SableCC: http://sablecc.org SableVM: http://sablevm.org
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