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 -- Steven Homolya School of Physics and Materials Engineering Monash University, VIC 3800 Australia Tel: +61 3 9905 3694 Fax: +61 3 9905 3637