1st paragraph indented

[Scott Kostyshak]

Also, which version of LyX are you using?

It's LyX 2.0.6, right from the Debian repository (but I think I had
noticed that already some time ago). Wonder if it's still the case in
2.1.

It is still the case. It turns out it has to do with the babel
definition for French. Take a look at
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/tex/CTAN/language/babel/contrib/frenchb/frenchb.pdf
In French the first paragraph of each section should be indented, this
is another difference with US-English.
I'm not sure how LyX could know this. We could make a list of how
things currently are in babel and hope the indentations don't change
often. Parsing the language definition files is probably overkill.

(continuing from a conversation on lyx-users)
LyX does not indent the first paragraph of a section, but apparently
babel does indent for certain languages. Is there an easy way to
handle this? My first thought is that it is not worth opening this can
of worms.

Scott

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Post by Scott Kostyshak
(continuing from a conversation on lyx-users)
LyX does not indent the first paragraph of a section, but apparently
babel does indent for certain languages. Is there an easy way to
handle this? My first thought is that it is not worth opening this can
of worms.

We could add a tag to languages indicating whether they do this indent
thing. Or even a local layout snippet, that would allow to change any
aspect of a textclass (like a module does).

But then I do not know what should be done for multilingual documents.

JMarc

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

Post by Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

Post by Scott Kostyshak
(continuing from a conversation on lyx-users)
LyX does not indent the first paragraph of a section, but apparently
babel does indent for certain languages. Is there an easy way to
handle this? My first thought is that it is not worth opening this can
of worms.

We could add a tag to languages indicating whether they do this indent
thing. Or even a local layout snippet, that would allow to change any aspect
of a textclass (like a module does).

Good idea. I don't think I'm motivated enough to pursue this.

Post by Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
But then I do not know what should be done for multilingual documents.

Good point.

Scott