LyXWriting in the bottom of the screen

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chilifreak
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Writing in the bottom of the screen

Post by chilifreak »

Hey - new to the forums, but haven't been able to find a answer to this.

When you have written a few paragraphs in LYX the cursor moves down to the bottom of the program, and I cant seem to find a way to scroll down to write in the middle of the screen and have a blank wall of lyx-page - like when you start a new document - to write on.

It's kind of frustrating, since I do all my work on a laptop, and like a overview of the text, but the solutions I have found are not very good. I dont want to paste a wall of text beneath what im writing to keep in the middle, and I prefer not to resize the window, and writing full-screen only seems to make the problem worse.

Is there a way around this, except the strictly manual ones, by putting in text?

Thanks for any answers :)

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d60pmp
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Writing in the bottom of the screen

Post by d60pmp »

This is just the Lyx way. If you must have space below the cursor then a better solution than dead text would be a vertical space:
Insert-> Formatting -> Vertical Space -> Spacing:Custom & Size: 4in
But this will show up when you create your pdf. If you wanted to be sneaky you could put, in evil red text, a % symbol just before your vspace and then it would not appear in your output
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