On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Kathryn Andersen wrote:

> I have upgraded from 1.16fix* to 1.2.1 (and then 1.2.2) and recently had
> reason to go back and edit some of my old 1.16 files.  And I discovered
> that the GUI for 1.2.x, in the Layout->Paragraph dialogue, no longer
> gives one the ability to indent the whole paragraph!  It just has a
> toggle "No Indent" which affects the indentation of the first line in
> the paragraph, but one can no longer indent the paragraph as a whole.
> What gives?  It isn't as if indenting the whole paragraph is suddenly
> illegal, because the old 1.16 files which had the occassional indented
> paragraph *still do*.  The indentation works.  I can go in and bring up
> the .lyx file in a text editor and find the little command (I think it's
> "\leftindent" in the text and cut and paste and put it in another
> paragraph and it works...
> 

If you have a look at the exported latex, you'll see that the indented 
paragraph is a bit of an ugly latex hack. The paragraph is in fact a list 
item with an empty label whose width is the specified indent amount.

You can enter a list item with a protected space (ctrl-space) as the 
label, to achieve a similar effect. You can control the indentation using 
the "Label Width" entry in the paragraph layout popup. This way you can 
also have a cascade of indented paragraphs, because List is nestable.

> So why is it missing from the GUI, and why hasn't it been fixed between
> 1.2.1 and 1.2.2?

The developers probably decided not to 'cheat' the user by pretending that 
a list environment is a standard pgph ;-)

Steve

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Steven Homolya
School of Physics and Materials Engineering
Monash University, VIC 3800
Australia
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