Further to my earlier remarks, there seem to be some inconsistencies in
how indentation is handled within layout environments. I have the
following in a layout file:
Style Objection
CopyStyle Standard
Margin First_Dynamic
LatexType Environment
LatexName objection
LabelType Static
LabelString "Objection:"
LabelSep "M"
ParSkip 0.4
ParSep 0.4
LabelFont
Shape Italic
EndFont
EndLabelType No_Label
Preamble
\usepackage{objrep}
EndPreamble
End
Style Reply
CopyStyle Standard
Margin First_Dynamic
LatexType Environment
LatexName reply
LabelType Static
LabelString "Reply:"
LabelSep "M"
ParIndent ""
ParSkip 0.4
ParSep 0.4
LabelFont
Shape Italic
EndFont
EndLabelType No_Label
Preamble
\usepackage{objrep}
EndPreamble
End
Note that the difference is just the presence of the ParIndent line in
Reply. Now, if you were to create a file using such a layout, here's
what you would find: If you have more than one paragraph within an
objection environment, you get the line skip AND an indentation, whereas
in reply you get just the line skip.
I'm unsure whether this is the documented
behavior, but it surely isn't right, because it doesn't change if I
change from "skip" to "indent" in the document settings >text layout
dialog. What one would want, it seems to me, is for the behavior of
these paragraphs to track the global behavior unless one says otherwise,
since that's what the LaTeX will do.
Along these same lines, consider the following sort of layout:
Here's some text in some non-standard environment.
>Now here is a quote environment, say, with the depth increased.
Now we're back to the non-standard environment.
Got it? The last line there is, as far as LaTeX is concerned, part of
the same paragraph as the first line. But that is not how the layout
treats it: It is treated as a new paragraph and is, therefore, indented
if that's what is wanted, or you get a skip. This too seems like a bug.
Is it known?
Richard
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