[Tex/LaTex] Controlling paragraph spacing in LyX

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I'm working on a rather large document for my university using LyX. I have been using the report (KOMA-Script) document class.

According to my university's document specification each paragraph should have 6pts of spacing before and after it. Is there any simple way to do this?

I've looked around all of the settings provided in LyX and haven't found a solution. And I'm very new to LaTeX, so I do not really understand how to go about this.

Most of the document is written under the Standard Environment along with the appropriate chapters, sections and sub-sections. I need this Standard Environment text to have the correct paragraph spacing.

Best Answer

Add the following to your LaTeX preamble (which should be accessible in LyX through Document -> Settings -> LaTeX Preamble):

\KOMAoptions{parskip=half}

This will result in paragraph spacing equal to half the value of \baselineskip or (depending on the basic font size of the document) between 6pt and 7.2pt.

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Here is an example for an LyX environment MyQuotation

Style MyQuotation
    Category              MainText
    Margin                Static
    LatexType             Environment
    LatexName             myquotation
    NextNoIndent          1
    LeftMargin            MMM
    RightMargin           MMM
    ParIndent             MM
    ParSkip               0
    ItemSep               0
    TopSep                0.5
    BottomSep             0.5
    ParSep                0
    Align                 Block
    AlignPossible         Block, Left, Right, Center
    Preamble
    \usepackage{mdframed}
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      {\begin{mdframed}[linecolor=red]\quotation}
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    EndPreamble
End

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[Tex/LaTex] no page numbers in lyx

It depend of the document class that you have selected (by default is article) in Document > Configuration. Make a new simple document (only with some words) and make the PDF: the number of is showed by default centered at the footer. If you change the document class to book the number of page will be in the top right in a beamer class is not showed ... and so on.

I do not have your document class but I changed this in your file:

\textclass article_acl_singlecolumn

\textclass article

to have the standard class article, and it show the number of page without problem.

Moreover, this can be modified by header and footer settings in Page layout or wih LateX code in the preamble. To understand how this work, read about the fancyhdr LaTeX package.

In any case, you can insert the number of page also in any part of the body document inserting a ERT box (Ctrl+L) with the code \thepage.

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