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Reputation: 15703

Lyx - how to create sections without titles

I'm currently looking into lyx because I'm starting to get fed up with writing LaTeX by hand. The problem is, LyX seems to be a bit opiniated about how sections should be written - I'm used to writing

\subsection{}
\subsubsection{}
...
\subsubsection{}

etc., because in the documents I'm writing I don't want titles for my sections. I just want them to be numbered. LyX doesn't seem to like that though, and ends up deleting my sections (and subsections, and subsubsections) when I don't have any text in their titles.

I can just insert a hard space, but this feels kind of weird. I don't understand why lyx wouldn't just let me hit enter and be done with it.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5507

Answers (2)

Jaleks
Jaleks

Reputation: 630

Try to us a 'hard space' as title of the sections, through <Ctrl>+<space>, that should do the trick (it's the keyboard shortcut for LaTeX's "~").

Upvotes: 1

joon
joon

Reputation: 4017

You can insert Evil Red Text (raw LaTeX commands) in LyX. Look for Insert -> TeX Code menu. I just tried it and inserted \subsection{} inside the ERT, and it compiled successfully and showed the section numbers.

Upvotes: 0

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