On 2.08.05, Roy Schestowitz wrote: > Quoting Rich Shepard: > > >On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Stacia Hartleben wrote: > > > >>Could someone please explain to me how text indenting works in Lyx? I > >>can't seem to figure it out. Thanks!
Do you mean the indentation at the start of a paragraph? > > You can change it in two places: Layout->Document->Layout choose > > Indent or Skip for paragraph spacing. Then, in > > Layout->Paragraph->General you can select Don't skip. > > If you are referring to lists, then you can use Layout and Increase > > or Decrease environment depth. > > You can also input forced whitespaces using CTRL+backspace. This is > useful, for example, if you are handling code which must be indented. To indent a complete paragraph (e.g. as a quote) select the Quote layout style in the drop-down list at the left of the toolbar. For more information on the LyX-way of formatting text have a look at Help>Tutorial and Help>User Manual. Guenter -- G.Milde web.de