\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-To separate paragraphs, select
+Select
\family sans
-Indent
+Indentation
\family default
or
\family sans
-Skip
+Vertical
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+space
\family default
in the submenu
\family sans
\end_inset
- to indent paragraphs or add extra space between paragraphs, respectively.
+ to indent paragraphs or to add extra space between paragraphs, respectively.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Subsection
\family default
\noun default
- dialog you can set the line spacing in the submenu
+ dialog you can set the line spacing for the whole document in the submenu
+
\family sans
Text
\begin_inset space ~
\end_inset
+ You can set it for a single paragraph in the
+\family sans
+Edit\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Paragraph
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+Settings
+\family default
+ dialog but this should be used very exceptionally because vertical spacing
+ is normally defined in the environment's style.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Section
the different environments inside one another, allowing one environment
to inherit some of the properties of another.
The different paragraph environments totally replace the need for messy
- tab stops, on the fly margin adjustment, and other hold-overs from the
- days of typewriters.
+ tab stops, on the fly margin adjustment, and other hangovers from the days
+ of typewriters.
There are several paragraph environments that are specific to a particular
document type.
We will only be covering the most common ones here.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-Note that hitting
+Note that entering
\family sans
Return
\family default
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-LyX keeps the old paragraph environment when you hit
+LyX keeps the old paragraph environment when you enter
\family sans
Return
\family default
environment.
Note that using this environment is optional.
If you don't provide any, LaTeX will automatically insert today's date.
- If you don't want any date, add the line
-\begin_inset Newline newline
-\end_inset
-
-
-\series bold
-
-\backslash
-date{}
-\series default
-
-\begin_inset Newline newline
-\end_inset
-
-to the preamble of your document (menu
+ If you don't want a date, use the option
+\family sans
+Suppress default date on front page
+\family default
+ in the menu
\family sans
Document\SpecialChar \menuseparator
-Settings
+Settings\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Document
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+class
\family default
-)
+.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
Headings all subdivide your document into different pieces of text.
For example, suppose you're writing a book.
You group the book into chapters.
- LyX does similar grouping:
+ LyX does a similar grouping:
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
Subsubsection
\family default
environment to label a new sub-subsection, LyX labels it with its number,
- along with the number of the subsection, section, and, if applicable, chapter
+ along with the number of the subsection, section and, if applicable, chapter
that it's in.
For example: the fifth section of the second chapter of this book has the
label
in the Table of Contents.
Now, this doesn't remove any of the levels; that's preset in the document
class.
- Certain classes start with
+ Just as certain classes start with
\family sans
Chapter
\family default
\end_inset
-\begin_inset Argument 1
+\begin_inset Argument status
status collapsed
\begin_layout Plain Layout
Standard
\family default
when you start a new paragraph.
- So, you can type in that poem and merrily hit
+ So, you can type in that poem and merrily enter
\family sans
Return
\family default
\family default
environment.
If I keep writing, you will see the indentation.
- If your country uses a writing style that shows off new paragraphs by indenting
+ If your country uses a writing style that indicates new paragraphs by indenting
the first line, then
\family sans
Quotation
Standard
\family default
but keeps the current environment and creates a new list item.
- The nesting depth is hereby kept.
+ The nesting depth is thereby kept.
If you want to keep the paragraph environment but reset the current nesting
depth, you can use
\begin_inset Info
arg "break-paragraph inverse"
\end_inset
- to break paragraphs.
+.
+ If you do this at the top level of a list, it returns you to the
+\family sans
+Standard
+\family default
+ environment.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
\end_inset
.
-
\end_layout
\begin_layout Subsubsection
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