layout with Parindent not working

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 8/9/26 12:57 AM, ken rector via lyx-users wrote:
> Using Lyx 2.3.0. and Local Layout I would like to make a paragraph 
> with no indentation, some text and followed by a single blank line to 
> separate it from the next paragraph.  Below is layout language 
> suggested by chatgpt.  The Lyx Layout validate operation says 'Layout 
> is valid!'.
>
> I type:
> "Title
> Grammar description sentence."
>
> This gives two paragraphs of type 'Standard' seperated by a simple 
> return.
> Put the cursor on the word "Title" and select type grammertitle from 
> the drop down.
>
> The edit window shows a blank line inserted between "Title" and 
> "Grammar description" as it should, but with a default indent (about 
> 6em).
>
> The PDF document shows "Title Grammar description." all on one line 
> with the default indent.
>
> It seems that ParIndent has no effect and BottomSep 1.0 only affects 
> the edit window.
>
> Is there a better way?

You need to provide some LaTeX code for this new style. ParIndent and 
BottomSep only affect the LyX display. So you need something like:

Format 60

Style grammertitle
     Category MainText
     LatexType command
     LatexName grammartitle
     Margin First_Dynamic
     ParIndent 0
     BottomSep 1.0
     Preamble
         \newcommand[1]\grammartitle{ YOUR LATEX HERE }
     EndPreamble
End

By the way, LyX 2.3.0 is WAY out of date. It was released over 8 years ago.

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