It is a well-known problem that there are quite a few TeX versions are around where -src-specials will cause the equivalent of \usepackage{indentfirst}, namely causing chapter beginnings and the like under LaTeX to be indented.
Does anybody have the scoop about what to tell the people still being surprised? IIRC, this was supposed to be "fixed" (as in: the number of cases where the specials wreaked appallingly visible havoc be reduced) in some web2c version. Are there any specific releases of teTeX-beta and/or TeXlive that one could recommend as not being afflicted in that particular manner? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum