Flush left looks wrong in GUI

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 8/20/24 12:32 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
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> On 8/19/24 19:36, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> On 8/19/24 6:09 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>>> 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).
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>>> \setlength{\parskip}{\smallskipamount}
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>>> \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.
>>>
>> Yes, that's all correct. The default template doesn't always need to 
>> be recreated, or modified, but in this case it does. It's just a 
>> normal LyX document, so it's being run through the upgrade process, 
>> and in this case that changes some things.
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>> It's all due to a change in how vertical space for paragraphs is 
>> handled. We used to redefine things the way lyx2lyx has added. Now we 
>> use the parskip package. See bug #4796.
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>> Riki
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> Thanks Riki. That makes sense. I wonder if it would be worth 
> mentioning in new version announcements that user-created templates 
> (default or otherwise) might need to be updated? 

Will do.

> Presumably templates shipping with LyX would not.

Actually, our templates get updated by running lyx2lyx, so some of them did.

Riki

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