As it is said somewhere in the tutorial, it is standard typesetting
practice not to indent the first line of a paragraph immediately
following a section heading. All paragraphs following regular
paragraphs should be indented. This is good typesetting practice, and
most classes implement this behavior. It is true, though, that it does
conflict with what most students in American high schools are
taught--namely, to indent each and every paragraph. Pick up a book
published by good publishing houses to find out who is right.
Stefano
On Sep 18, 2004, at 6:10 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Jack Gill wrote:
I'm just getting started with LyX and am working through the tutorial.
I'm puzzled by one thing so far.
In section 2.2.1 of the tutorial, I'm instructed to make a section.
Then I hit return and type in five lines of text.
When I hit return, the environment reverts to Standard, but the line
is
not indented. Subsequent lines are indented.
Furthermore, if I type in two lines of Standard text, put the cursor
on
the first line, make it into a section, the second line of Standard
text
loses it's indentation.
Why is the first line of Standard text after typing a section name
indented, while following lines of Standard text are indented?
Jack
I take it that you're hitting Return at the end of each of the five
lines of text?
There are a few things going on here. First, every time you whack
Return, you start a new paragraph (as opposed to producing a multiline
paragraph). Second, LaTeX distinguishes one paragraph from the next
by either inserting a small vertical skip or indenting the first line
of the paragraph. Each document class has a default choice of which
behavior to use, which you can override with the radio buttons in the
Separation section of Layout -> Document -> Layout. Finally, when
indentation is used, the first paragraph under a section heading is
not indented. (I'm not sure if that's true across the board or just
for certain classes, but it's true for the article class, which is
likely the one you are using.
-- Paul
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