changing default layout for paragraphs
I would like to change the default layout of paragrahs so that they appear left aligned rather than justfied. In my preamble I will put the command \RaggedRight, which will make he paragrahs left aligned. But when I work with the paragraph in lyx, they will still appear to be justfied, which in my opinion makes them very hard to work with. When I insert text in the middle of a paragraph, the lines have to continually adjust themselves, creating a distraction. (I'm surprised this does't drive anyone else crazy--or maybe it does?) I know that back 7 years ago or so there was a way to change the default layout of paragraphs. I lost the notes on how this was done. I hope it is still possible to do this. I know that I can go into the edit menu and change the paragraph settings, but this setting only appears to work for one paragraph, not for every paragraph. And besides, I notice that LyX then encloses the paragraphs in a flushleft environment, something I don't really want, since the RaggedRight command already makes my paragraphs left aligned. Also, I may want my paragraph to appear justfied in the PDF, but still want them to appear left aligned so that I can edit them more easily. I have looked at the LyX tutorial, but I couldn't find any concrete examples on how to make my own layout. I have checked in my ~/.lyx directory and notice that I have nothing in either my example directory or my layout directory. Thanks Paul
Re: changing default layout for paragraphs
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:41:16 -0500 Paul Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have looked at the LyX tutorial, but I couldn't find any concrete examples on how to make my own layout. I have checked in my ~/.lyx directory and notice that I have nothing in either my example directory or my layout directory. Okay, I found my layouts in /usr/local/share/lyx. (I was looking in /usr/share for the lyx folder before). I found memoir.layout and copied it to my local ~/.lyx/layout directory. I then modified the Standard style to look like this: Style Standard MarginStatic LatexType Paragraph LatexName dummy ParIndent MM ParSkip 0.4 Align Left AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center LabelType No_Label I just changed one line: the value of Align from Block to left. This gives me a left layout, but it no longer indents my paragrahs. I can get around this by changing the paragraph separator in LyX to vertical space, but I would prefer to have a first line indentation. I'm almost possible that the way I got this to work was by doing something with labels. I tried changing LabelThpe to Static and including a LabelString to MM but that just gave me an M at the start of my paragraph. Paul
changing default layout for paragraphs
I would like to change the default layout of paragrahs so that they appear left aligned rather than justfied. In my preamble I will put the command \RaggedRight, which will make he paragrahs left aligned. But when I work with the paragraph in lyx, they will still appear to be justfied, which in my opinion makes them very hard to work with. When I insert text in the middle of a paragraph, the lines have to continually adjust themselves, creating a distraction. (I'm surprised this does't drive anyone else crazy--or maybe it does?) I know that back 7 years ago or so there was a way to change the default layout of paragraphs. I lost the notes on how this was done. I hope it is still possible to do this. I know that I can go into the edit menu and change the paragraph settings, but this setting only appears to work for one paragraph, not for every paragraph. And besides, I notice that LyX then encloses the paragraphs in a flushleft environment, something I don't really want, since the RaggedRight command already makes my paragraphs left aligned. Also, I may want my paragraph to appear justfied in the PDF, but still want them to appear left aligned so that I can edit them more easily. I have looked at the LyX tutorial, but I couldn't find any concrete examples on how to make my own layout. I have checked in my ~/.lyx directory and notice that I have nothing in either my example directory or my layout directory. Thanks Paul
Re: changing default layout for paragraphs
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:41:16 -0500 Paul Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have looked at the LyX tutorial, but I couldn't find any concrete examples on how to make my own layout. I have checked in my ~/.lyx directory and notice that I have nothing in either my example directory or my layout directory. Okay, I found my layouts in /usr/local/share/lyx. (I was looking in /usr/share for the lyx folder before). I found memoir.layout and copied it to my local ~/.lyx/layout directory. I then modified the Standard style to look like this: Style Standard MarginStatic LatexType Paragraph LatexName dummy ParIndent MM ParSkip 0.4 Align Left AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center LabelType No_Label I just changed one line: the value of Align from Block to left. This gives me a left layout, but it no longer indents my paragrahs. I can get around this by changing the paragraph separator in LyX to vertical space, but I would prefer to have a first line indentation. I'm almost possible that the way I got this to work was by doing something with labels. I tried changing LabelThpe to Static and including a LabelString to MM but that just gave me an M at the start of my paragraph. Paul
changing default layout for paragraphs
I would like to change the default layout of paragrahs so that they appear left aligned rather than justfied. In my preamble I will put the command \RaggedRight, which will make he paragrahs left aligned. But when I work with the paragraph in lyx, they will still appear to be justfied, which in my opinion makes them very hard to work with. When I insert text in the middle of a paragraph, the lines have to continually adjust themselves, creating a distraction. (I'm surprised this does't drive anyone else crazy--or maybe it does?) I know that back 7 years ago or so there was a way to change the default layout of paragraphs. I lost the notes on how this was done. I hope it is still possible to do this. I know that I can go into the edit menu and change the paragraph settings, but this setting only appears to work for one paragraph, not for every paragraph. And besides, I notice that LyX then encloses the paragraphs in a flushleft environment, something I don't really want, since the RaggedRight command already makes my paragraphs left aligned. Also, I may want my paragraph to appear justfied in the PDF, but still want them to appear left aligned so that I can edit them more easily. I have looked at the LyX tutorial, but I couldn't find any concrete examples on how to make my own layout. I have checked in my ~/.lyx directory and notice that I have nothing in either my example directory or my layout directory. Thanks Paul
Re: changing default layout for paragraphs
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:41:16 -0500 Paul Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have looked at the LyX tutorial, but I couldn't find any concrete > examples on how to make my own layout. I have checked in my ~/.lyx > directory and notice that I have nothing in either my example > directory or my layout directory. > Okay, I found my layouts in /usr/local/share/lyx. (I was looking in /usr/share for the lyx folder before). I found memoir.layout and copied it to my local ~/.lyx/layout directory. I then modified the Standard style to look like this: Style Standard MarginStatic LatexType Paragraph LatexName dummy ParIndent MM ParSkip 0.4 Align Left AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center LabelType No_Label I just changed one line: the value of Align from Block to left. This gives me a left layout, but it no longer indents my paragrahs. I can get around this by changing the paragraph separator in LyX to vertical space, but I would prefer to have a first line indentation. I'm almost possible that the way I got this to work was by doing something with labels. I tried changing LabelThpe to Static and including a LabelString to "MM" but that just gave me an M at the start of my paragraph. Paul
