Flush left looks wrong in GUI

[Paul Rubin]

On 8/19/24 15:57, Paul Rubin 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?
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
Replying to myself (never a good sign), I think I have identified the 
problem. My default template, inherited from (and working as expected 
in) LyX 2.3.6, has (under Document > Settings...) Text Layout > 
Paragraph Separation set to Indentation: Default. Also inherited, in the 
LaTeX Preamble, is the following (commented as having been added by 
lyx2lyx).

\setlength{\parskip}{\smallskipamount}

\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}

So apparently the default template has to be recreated after upgrading 
from 2.3.x. I deleted the preamble contents, changed paragraph 
separation from Indentation: Default to Vertical space: Small skip and 
saved that as the new default document settings. That seems to have 
fixed it for new docs.

Paul
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