LyX ⇒ Left alignment and indentation

[johnny7]

Hi,

My document requires a specific format which includes left alignment (instead of full justification) and indentation at the beginning of each paragraph (default).
However, it doesn't seem possible to combine these two commands. When I select the main text and choose left alignment via the paragraph settings, the indentation disappears although it is still selected in the text format settings. Instead, there is a small space between paragraphs in the created PDF. The formatting in Lyx looks fine.

Is there a way I can get both requirements working at the same time?
Thanks very much for your help.

[Johannes_B]

You can copy the codeblock in the middle to your document preamble. It simply removes the part that sets the indent to zero.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\raggedright}{\parindent\z@}{}{}{}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\raggedright
\blindtext

\blindtext
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Jonny,

a similar solution was posted by Thorsten here: Ragged Right Justification cancels Indentation.

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\newlength{\saveparindent}
\setlength{\saveparindent}{\parindent}
\raggedright
\setlength{\parindent}{\saveparindent}

You could insert this in the document preamble with LyX, or Johannes' very good suggestion

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\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\raggedright}{\parindent\z@}{}{}{}
\makeatother

Stefan

[johnny7]

Thanks for your answers, but none of the proposed codes work me. I simply added them to the preamble as you said. The document does not directly start with left alignment if that changes anything. Is there another place I could insert the codeblocks?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Johnny,

could you please export your LyX document to LaTeX and post it as attachment? Of course you can remove confidential content, the most important to now is the preamble.

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

The document does not directly start with left alignment

Never does directly after a sectioning command, or in other words, this is by design. Please load package indentfirst to get the first paragraph after sectioning commands as well.