Helge Hafting wrote: > This particular one isn't that inconsistent: > Enter terminates a paragraph and starts a new one. Empty > paragraphs are disallowed because latex won't print them anyway.
That's not necesarily the reason. One thing is latex, another is LyX: if they would make some sense in LyX, this could probably be easily overcomed. Of course they don't make sense, but that's another story. > Allowing such breaks will merely fool users who don't know latex. > This looks like a line break only because paragraphs tend to > start on the beginning of the line. > > Note that the gap between paragraphs is a rubber length (it stretches > an shrinks as necessary) so it is not necessarily a multiple of the > line height.If you need more space between paragraphs, > use layout-paragraph and specify some length. I perfectly agree with this. > ctrl+enter inserts a linebreak without breaking up the paragraph. > You can have as many as you like of these, it might be useful if > filling out a form perhaps. These breaks have exact line height. ...which in turn, depends on the font I guess. So you want to allow this kind of dirty formatting for _filling forms_? (I think that LyX is maybe the worst tool for doing that, but what do I know) And note that the current behaviour would be annoying even for filling forms: you want to replace some text and your carefully placed 17 linebreaks get eaten when you delete the old text with backspace. Alfredo
