Is there an easy way to redefine paragraph styles in Lyx? I'm new to LyX and TeX, and I'm just trying to use it to typeset a book. It's going well, I'm using the "book" document class, I get a nice output, but now I want to change the chapter headings to a different size and font, say. Or give the body text paragraphs a different first line indent.
In Word, for example, I would just go to the paragraph styles and either add my own or override an existing one. I've done some RTFM but I want to make sure I'm on the right track and I haven't overlooked something stupid. Is it right that Word's paragraph styles are analogous to "environments" in LaTeX? >From various places it suggests creating .layout, .sty or .cls files but I'm not sure which - it seems a bit complicated for something so basic which makes me think I might be doing something wrong. Or do I just add some code to the LaTeX Preamble section in the Document Settings? Should I be creating my own class from scratch? Or just overriding parts of the basic "book" class? Could someone give me a basic example of changing the font used for the chapter headings? It's only the output I'm worried about - it doesn't matter how it looks in LyX. thanks Paul.
