Lyx - how to create sections without titles

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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