Making first paragraphs not indented in exported HTML

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

If you think other people have the time you don't maybe you
also not waste their time by posting this.

el

On 2022-04-11 09:22 , Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:
> Daniel via lyx-users said on Mon, 11 Apr 2022 08:13:43 +0200
> 
>> On 2022-04-11 03:44, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> In the past, some exporters have implemented the custom of not
>>> indenting the first of several successive paragraphs by using a
>>> different class of paragraph for the first of a series of paragraphs.
>>> This way of doing things makes more work for the person writing the
>>> export, and more work for the person converting the export to
>>> acceptable ePub, because those special classes will need to be backed
>>> out or otherwise specially handled.
>>>
>>> Not indenting the first of a series of paragraphs is easily
>>> accomplished by the following two lines of CSS:
>>>
>>> p::first-letter{margin-left: 3em;}
>>> :not(p) + p::first-letter{margin-left:0.0001em;}
>>>
>>> Let CSS decide which is the first of several consecutive paragraphs,
>>> and let CSS define what to do with that paragraph. Make it easy on
>>> everybody.
>>>
>>> I took an hour to figure this out. Could somebody please take 3
>>> minutes to forward it to the developer's list and also the person
>>> who is writing the HTML export?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> SteveT
>>>
>>> Steve Litt
>>> March 2022 featured book: Making Mental Models: Advanced Edition
>>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm
>>
>> I'd suggest that you file a bug/enhancement report at
>> https://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome (including the LyX
>> version you are using and exact steps to reproduce the problem).
> 
> Like I said, I spent an hour getting that code just right. I did the
> hard part, I did my part. In the time you took to respond to me, you
> could have forwarded my email.
> 
> I don't have time to learn the quirks of every project's bugtracker,
> type in information that's not relevant, and hope somebody looks at it.
> At a lot of projects, the bugtracker is where requests go to die
> (Bluefish, you listening?).
> 
> If I could change one thing about FOSS it would be to get rid of
> bugtrackers and work directly with the user. That's what we did at
> VimOutliner, and bugs got solved and requests got implemented very
> quickly.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt
> March 2022 featured book: Making Mental Models: Advanced Edition
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm