>If you are not too afraid to change a bit the sources, take a look at
>all the places where the function stringWidth() is called on parindent
>or layout.parindent and change it with signedStringWidth(), which
>honors the leading '-'. Then try it out. If it does something
>reasonable, I'll be glad to accept this change [I do not have much
>time to try it out myself].
I made the change and I'm surprised that it seems to work. That is, a
negative parindent is displayed right and lyx didn't bomb yet ;) I
made a brain-dead search & replace operation (like I said, I have no
idea what I'm doing) and found one single occurence only (in text.C);
is that possible?
