Re: aligning paragraphs

2001-10-06 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:41:07AM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:34:17PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > > Instead of using \raggedright, use > > > > \usepackage{ragged2e} > > \setlength{\RaggedRightParindent}{\parindent} > > \RaggedRight > > This works great once you

Re: Re: aligning paragraphs

2001-10-05 Thread Paul Tremblay
On my version of lyx, this does not work. If I go to Layout| Document| paragraph-separation, and change this setting to "indent," my paragraphs still will not indent, because they are aligned left. Apparently, LyX won't let you use the automatic indent mode unless you choose block (justified) para

Re: aligning paragraphs

2001-10-04 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:34:17PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > Instead of using \raggedright, use > > \usepackage{ragged2e} > \setlength{\RaggedRightParindent}{\parindent} > \RaggedRight This works great once you output the file to dvi (or whatever). But I really need to see the indents when I

Re: aligning paragraphs

2001-10-04 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:47:51PM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:35:09PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > I got this to work. But now how do I get the first line of the > paragraph to indent? I have looked in vain at other layouts, and > couldn't find the command. Instead

Re: aligning paragraphs

2001-10-03 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:35:09PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 12:20:24AM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote: > > I notice that lyx automatically justifies pages. I don't like my > > text justified. It is harder to read. Also, it is really a big pain > > to edit. When I put my curs

Re: aligning paragraphs

2001-10-03 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:35:09PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: > It is really ugly to have ragged right output. But if you want it, My girlfriend worked as a desktop publisher. I remember reading some of the books on desktop publishing, and several authors noted that justified text is simply harde

Re: aligning paragraphs

2001-10-03 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 12:20:24AM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote: > I notice that lyx automatically justifies pages. I don't like my text justified. > It is harder to read. Also, it is really a big pain to edit. When I put my > cursor in the middle of a paragraph and begin to type, the text jerks acr

Re: aligning paragraphs

2001-10-02 Thread Gerhard Schuck
If you choose Alignment = Left in the Paragraph menu you have no hyphenation in the final document. For left aligned text with hyphenation write the following into your preamble: \usepackage{ragged2e} \RaggedRight Apart from that you can edit the layout files (first copy them to "~/.lyx/layout

Re: aligning paragraphs

2001-10-02 Thread Christopher M. Jones
Layout -> Paragraph -> Alignment = Left On Tuesday 02 October 2001 11:20 pm, you wrote: > I notice that lyx automatically justifies pages. I don't like my text > justified. It is harder to read. Also, it is really a big pain to edit. > When I put my cursor in the middle of a paragraph and begin t

aligning paragraphs

2001-10-02 Thread Paul Tremblay
I notice that lyx automatically justifies pages. I don't like my text justified. It is harder to read. Also, it is really a big pain to edit. When I put my cursor in the middle of a paragraph and begin to type, the text jerks across the page because it is trying to itself. How can I get the text