On 2013-11-30, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:31:07 +0000 (UTC)
> Martin Hooper <marti...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> How do I change the spacing between paragraphs in Lyx...?
>> I want the line spacing to be single as it is the default but to add
>> more space between the last line of the previous paragraph and the
>> first line of the next one.
> Ooh, ooh, ooh, I know that. Call on me!
> This list has five million questions I can't answer, so it's great to
> get one I can. Here's the answer:
> Document->settings->Text_layout->Vertical_space->Bigskip.
> You can use custom instead of Bigskip to set the exact value.
The correct answer is, however, to insert
\usepackage{parskip}
in Document>Settings>LaTeX preamble, because LyX way of separating
paragraphs is buggy (see
http://ctan.mackichan.com/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/4796
) and leads to too much vertical space around lists and similar constructs.
Some document classes (e.g. the KOMA classes) provide alternative ways to
configure paragraph separating with configurable space between
paragraphs.
Günter
