I'd like to increase the left and right margins for a couple of
paragraphs, as for an abstract near the beginning of my article.
That is, I'd like those paragraphs narrower than normal, and centered
on the page, and in block alignment, like the rest of the article.

Selecting the text and applying Layout->Paragraph->ExtraOpt:
  Indented Paragraph: indents the left margin
  Minipage:           indents the right margin
  Floatfit:           has no effect

Making it a minipage and adding \addtolength{\leftmargin}{20em} before
the text does nothing at all.

Sorry for what must be a stupid newbie question, but I can't seem to
bumble onto the solution...

TIA,

Jim                    

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