Starting new environment in the middle of a line

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 12:36:23PM +0200, Udicoudco wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 9:22 AM Udicoudco <udifoglle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 7:16 PM Scott Kostyshak <scott.kostyshak at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Sometimes (but not too often), I want to start an environment in the
> >> middle of a line.
> >>
> >> In LaTeX, it seems to work fine, although I don't know if this is
> >> considered bad practice. But in LyX, we can only start an environment at
> >> the beginning of a paragraph I believe.
> >>
> >
> > To my knowledge lyx starts  a new line with nested environments in the
> > latex code, but that should not start a new paragraph, unless the latex
> > environment   is forcing you to start a new paragraph with \par or a
> > similar command.
> >
> >
> >> Attached is an example in LyX that uses ERT. I haven't actually
> >> implemented this environment in LyX yet (I'm still planning to). Sometimes
> >> I can use the \uncover command, but other times I prefer an environment.
> >>
> >> I also attach an example .tex file with an environment that is
> >> implemented in LyX (block). I attach the example as a .tex file
> >> (example-block.tex), and the imported .lyx file
> >> (example-block-imported.23.lyx). LyX makes a paragraph break and then nests
> >> the environment. This causes a linebreak that I don't want in the
> >> corresponding PDF.
> >>
> >
> > I think that the differences in the output PDF are coming from using the
> > block environment with the non ERT version and the uncover environment in
> > the file with the ERT (note that also the .tex files produces the same pdf
> > as example-block-imported.23.lyx)
> >
> > To check my suspicion I've tried to see if using uncover as a style layout
> > in lyx will cause this problem. To do so I copied the block layout from the
> > beamer.layout file to the local layout and changed the style name, latex
> > name and label name to uncover. see the attached file.
> >
> 
> Sorry, I now realize that you probably meant that lyx starts a new
> paragraph in the GUI when starting an environment and not in the latex code
> nor the pdf output.

Thanks for taking a look Udi!

Scott
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