I'm a new Lyx user, and yes I've read the tutorial.
Lyx won't let you add two spaces or two blank lines when you want to. If you switch to Verbatim font, then you type as you please but ctrl-m is disabled so you have to use Insert->Inline Eqn which is slow and irritating. Is there any way defeat these irritating features, so that I can type what I want to type but also us ctrl-m?
EDIT: Either enabling spaces in Standard or storing ctrl-M in Verbatim would work. Or if there is some other setting that let's both work at the same time.
Best Answer
As you're not exporting to any other format, it's probably more OK to ignore the LaTeX side of things. In the case that PDF is a desired output, the LaTeX side should not be ignored, and see the old answer below.
Go to Document --> Settings --> Local Layout, and add the following:
This modifies the Standard style to allow multiple spaces (
FreeSpacing 1
) and empty paragraphs (KeepEmpty 1
). This will allow you to add spaces and newlines as you will, while not disabling math mode.I guess the Save as document defaults button will make this default for new documents as well.
Old answer
Well you can, but in general you probably shouldn't. There will probably be better ways of achieving what you're actually trying to do. That said:
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