OK, thank you. I've pinpointed the issue now. Early in using Lyx a year or so ago, I was othered by the absence of on-screen margins, the text running right up to the edge of the window in the default configuration. Somewhere online, I found the advice to modify "Local Layout" under Document>Settings to take care of this. Following what I had read, I added to Local Layout the following:
Format 60 RightMargin 10pt LeftMargin 10pt — which did the trick, as far as I was concerned. What I have now learned is that my LeftMargin setting is responsible for what I now assume is a bug in the display of superscripts and subscripts. When I remove this line, the problem disappears (along with my onscreen left margin). When I put it back, the problem reappears. The other two commands that I added to Local Layout have no effect on this problem. Unless this is a feature rather than a bug, for some reason, I assume this is something to report, but perhaps you will know better than me how to report it informatively? For now, I will live with my onscreen margins and the (presumed) bug, unless you have a better suggestion. Thank you again. -David > On Jul 8, 2018, at 12:10 PM, Joel Kulesza <jkule...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 9:52 AM, David Pesetsky <pese...@mit.edu > <mailto:pese...@mit.edu>> wrote: > - > >> On Jul 8, 2018, at 11:48 AM, Joel Kulesza <jkule...@gmail.com >> <mailto:jkule...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 9:29 AM, David Pesetsky <pese...@mit.edu >> <mailto:pese...@mit.edu>> wrote: >> When I add text as a subscript or superscript using >> Insert>Formatting>{Sub,Super}script, Lyx 2.3.0 adds a large onscreen >> horizontal gap before the text. This appears to be WYSIWYG problem only, as >> the Latex output does not have this problem (and there is no gap, as far as >> the onscreen cursor is concerned). I don't see anything about this in the >> bug tracker, so is it something I should file as a bug? Or something I did, >> without knowing it ...? >> >> -David >> >> I don't see similar behavior with LyX 2.3.0 on OS X 10.13.5 (see attached >> for what I see). >> >> It looks like your LyX background color is different from the default (white >> rather than the default beige). Perhaps another customization is driving >> this behavior? > > Right, that's what I was wondering, but I can't think of what. I changed > some colors a while ago, and picked an onscreen font — but I've tried > tinkering with different onscreen fonts, with no difference in the > superscript/subscript problem. > > What I would do to diagnose this: > > Rename ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3 to ~/Library/Application > Support/LyX-2.3.bak > > Relaunch LyX 2.3.0. It will think it's a new installation with no > configuration files and will generate them (taking longer than usual to start > while doing so). Run a test to see if the sub/superscripts are "normal." If > so, it is something in the non-default settings. From there, you can compare > the contents of the new (clean) configuration files in that directory to the > backup you made. > > To recover your old settings, for better or worse, remove the "new" > ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3 directory and copy over the "old", > backed-up, one from ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3.bak. > > - Joel > > -- David Pesetsky [pese...@mit.edu] Department of Linguistics and Philosophy 32-D818 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 USA (617) 253-0957 office (617) 253-5017 fax http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/pesetsky.home.html
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