Flush left looks wrong in GUI

[Paul Rubin]

On 8/19/24 16:36, Maria Gouskova wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 3:57 PM Paul Rubin <parubin73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Apologies if this is a known bug (or a hallucination specific to
>     my machine). I recently upgraded to LyX 2.4.0 RC3, and today I
>     noticed something goofy in a newly started document. So I manually
>     installed 2.4.1 and found the same issue. I've attached a minimal
>     example.
>
>     The document should be starting all paragraphs flushed to the
>     left. In fact, the compiled PDF has that correct ... but the LyX
>     GUI (see screenshot) shows most paragraphs as being indented. The
>     only exceptions are those immediately following section(ish)
>     environments (but not subparagraphs).
>
>     I presume this is not intentional. Is it a known bug or is my
>     machine just cursed?
>
>
> I'm seeing the same thing as in your screenshot, also on Linux Mint 22 
> (older Python version, otherwise probably the same specs as I built 
> 2.4.1 from source and that required updating all sorts of Qt packages, 
> etc.)
>
> But: I think this might be normal. When I expand paragraphs to a 
> longer length, the first one is not indented, and the subsequent ones 
> are. So all you're seeing is standard Article class 
> formatting.makes_jack_a_dull_boy.png
>
> Maria
>
Maria,

Thanks. I think I figured out the issue, which I will report in a 
separate reply.

Paul
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