Les, I have been using that manual all along. If that's the best that Lyx & Co. can do for my layout needs, then I really am doomed. I don't want to learn latex right now, it's just a learning-curve too far for me.
Forget poetry -- how would you inset a block of text (and it's subsection title) so that it's deeply indented into the page? I have tried 2 column mode, but can't figure a way to clear the first column. I have tried a table (in true old-fashioned html table-design fashion) with blank columns (to get the indenting), but it seems one can't have a subsection env. within a table cell. I thought there may be a boffin out there who can tell me which .inc or .layout file, and where, and how, to edit so that verse env. simply uses a larger indent. Thanks anyway :) \d
