>Second, wouldn't it be nice to have a document setting saying whether you >would like to indent the first the first paragraph after a section heading. >I don't know for English, but at least in Dutch it is common practice not >to indent. If you want this, you now have to select each first paragraph >individually and say it should not be aligned. This unavoidably leads to >documents in which some of the first paragraphs are indented and some others >are not (if you are not that awake constantly).
Well, it looks like this is set by the document class/style and in that case LyX might not even want to override this.