On Monday 17 September 2001 10:25, Juergen Vigna wrote:
> On 17-Sep-2001 Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
>
> > All the paragraph extra stuff was a hack.
> > (and this is why it is so excruciatingly hard to get rid of it)
>
> Could you explain why it was a hack in your opinion? Because we used
> some more paragraph-params? Because we had a visual feedback on screen?
> Because we had some more options (extra) for the single paragraph?
>
> I accept if you say the minipage stuff was a hack (because it involved more
> than one paragraph so it wasn't REALLY a paragraph option), but the
> indent stuff I really don't know why.
>
> I just don't get it?
Jürgen, IF you'd like to put the ability to modify the width of an individual
paragraph back into LyX, then I'm happy to give it a frontend. Duncan Simpson
suggested that the best LaTeX for the problem is:
ERT inset
{\leftskip=2cm
\rightskip=2cm
\advance\parindent by 2cm
lots of paragraphs of text here
ERT inset
}
This would allow us to modify both left and right margins and the size of the
indentation to the start of each paragraph.
Just a thought,
Angus
