How can I create an enumerated list nested inside another enumerated list, without any initial text in the first level?

Question

I tried to create the following in LyX. But it does not give what I want.

1 (a) text
      OR
  (b) text

2 (a) (i) text
      (ii) text
     OR
  (b) text

LyX does allow only to produce as shown below

1 Text
  (a) text

The working code in LaTeX:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item 
\begin{enumerate}
\item Text
\end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}
\end{document} 

Answer 1

I think you need to trick LyX a bit to do this, as it doesn't appear to allow you to add a new list item if the previous one is empty. A workaround is to add an empty ERT box in the first list item, then outside the ERT hit enter followed by tab to create the sublist.

Here is how it appears in LyX and PDF with the default document settings. Those empty boxes are ERTs added with Ctrl + L.

Answer 2

If you stumble across this thread and don't know how to make a nested enumerated list at all. You have to click on this symbol, which is about in the middle of Lyx's toolbar.