On 8/19/24 19:36, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
On 8/19/24 6:09 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
On 8/19/24 15:57, Paul Rubin wrote:
Apologies if this is a known bug (or a hallucination specific to my
machine). I recently upgraded to LyX 2.4.0 RC3, and today I noticed
something goofy in a newly started document. So I manually installed
2.4.1 and found the same issue. I've attached a minimal example.
The document should be starting all paragraphs flushed to the left.
In fact, the compiled PDF has that correct ... but the LyX GUI (see
screenshot) shows most paragraphs as being indented. The only
exceptions are those immediately following section(ish) environments
(but not subparagraphs).
I presume this is not intentional. Is it a known bug or is my
machine just cursed?
Cheers,
Paul
Replying to myself (never a good sign), I think I have identified the
problem. My default template, inherited from (and working as expected
in) LyX 2.3.6, has (under Document > Settings...) Text Layout >
Paragraph Separation set to Indentation: Default. Also inherited, in
the LaTeX Preamble, is the following (commented as having been added
by lyx2lyx).
\setlength{\parskip}{\smallskipamount}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
So apparently the default template has to be recreated after
upgrading from 2.3.x. I deleted the preamble contents, changed
paragraph separation from Indentation: Default to Vertical space:
Small skip and saved that as the new default document settings. That
seems to have fixed it for new docs.
Yes, that's all correct. The default template doesn't always need to
be recreated, or modified, but in this case it does. It's just a
normal LyX document, so it's being run through the upgrade process,
and in this case that changes some things.
It's all due to a change in how vertical space for paragraphs is
handled. We used to redefine things the way lyx2lyx has added. Now we
use the parskip package. See bug #4796.
Riki
Thanks Riki. That makes sense. I wonder if it would be worth mentioning
in new version announcements that user-created templates (default or
otherwise) might need to be updated? Presumably templates shipping with
LyX would not.
Paul
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