On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:22:44 +0200
Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>>> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> >>> what you need is nothing else than an empty line inside LyX and
> >>> this is pretty easy with
> >>>
> >>> Style "Standard(Keep)" CopyStyle Standard KeepEmpty 1 End
> >>>
> >>> in stdclass.inc
> > 
> > Andre> Good idea.
> > 
> > Andre> Jose': Ok to prepare a patch for 1.5.0?
> > 
> > I would advise against that. People will use it as a word-like "put
> > multiple cariage return to do my page layout" feature and then
> > complain that it does not show on screen. 
> 
> two major facts:
> 
> 1. TeX knows no space ... it is used to split words
> 2. TeX knows no empty lines ... it is used to split paragraphs
> 
> If you do not know these facts, you cannot understand TeX and you
> cannot understand LyX ...

LyX should make TeX easy, not hard.

I agree with Jean-Marc on this one. If the intention is to split an environment,
the tool used should visually express that.

- Martin

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