LyX ⇒ How to start a new paragraph in Lyx?!

[auvajs]

I start a new document.
Choose paragraph in the Environment bar.
(The cursor is on the Paragraph line)
and now if I press ENTER at once (so that there should be no paragraph title text if you understand me), the whole Paragraph environment line disappears and gets back to Standard!!

I spent some 30 minutes google searching but couldn't figure out how to make a new paragraph without a text in LyX (I mean \paragraph{}) so it drives me crazy now... please help me:)

[auvajs]

hm so I finally found out I have to make an empty ERT box for this.. guys I tell you this is soooooo user-unfriendly... I'm probably a masochist wasting my time with this software

(to mods: you can delete this tread if you want)

[meho_r]

It is "user-unfriendly" only because user failed to notice that \paragraph{} is one of sectioning units*, just like \chapter{} and \section{} and it, naturally, behaves in the same fashion (no matter that title is in the same line as the beginning of the text). Basically, use Paragraph environment in LyX for title, i.e., bold starting text only, while remainder of text goes into its own, Standard paragraph, exactly the same you do for chapters, sections, etc.: title goes into its own paragraph, while the text that follows goes into its own. E.g.:

• Paragraph. This is an example.
  
  Another paragraph. And another example.

In LyX, these two are set as follows:

• 1. "Paragraph." This is title and it's set as Paragraph environment. Press Return/Enter afterwards.
  
  2. "This is an example." This is set as Standard environment. Press Return/Enter afterwards.
  
  3. "Another paragraph". Same as 1. Shortcut for setting a paragraph to Paragraph is: Alt+P 5.
  
  4. "And another example". Same as 2. Shortcut for setting a paragraph to Standard is: Alt+P S.

So, if you don't want starting bold text (a.k.a. title), use another environment. Using Paragraph environment without having a title simply doesn't make sense (imagine using \chapter{} and \section{} without actual title). However, to reply to your first complaint, you might try with a nonbreaking space (Ctrl+Space) in Paragraph line, and then pressing Enter/Return, so that LyX doesn't remove empty paragraph. But still, this really doesn't make any sense.

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* Note "Section" at the beginning of the group Paragraph belongs to in drop-down list top-left.

[auvajs]

Thank you for your reply!

Using Paragraph environment without having a title simply doesn't make sense (imagine using \chapter{} and \section{} without actual title).

Well legal documents are made this way in my country. They are structured into paragraphs where only few of them have also its title - most paragraphs have only their number - which works perfectly well as a reference point.