How to control first line indent inside blockquotes in epub

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I find that all my blockquotes have a first line indent that isn’t present in the editor. I think I found the root cause. The compiler uses the following two styles for paragraphs - the first produces no indent, the second does:

.ps11 { text-align: justify; font-size: 0.92rem; }
.ps12 { margin-left: 0rem; text-indent: 0rem; text-align: justify; font-size: 0.92rem; }

But the paragraph inside a blockquote has no style:

<blockquote>
<p>Archie, full of enthusiasm, announced that he was going to write another book. Instead of being overjoyed, I abhorred the idea.</p>
</blockquote>

Isn’t that wrong? Shouldn’t it have style ps11 if there is no indent in the editor?

I found a compile option that appears to work around this: Text layout > Remove first line indents > From all elements that follow other elements.

I don’t much like using this, since without looking through the entire book I can’t be sure if it doesn’t have undesirable side effects. And anyway it seems like the wrong approach.

Isn’t this just a bug?

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Any chance of reply?

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That’s easy to adjust in CSS:

blockquote > p:first-of-type {text-indent: 0;}

Like this:

indent
indent1236×440 81.9 KB

Is suspect that this does something similar, but maybe by other means (haven’t tested it):

I found a compile option that appears to work around this: Text layout > Remove first line indents > From all elements that follow other elements.

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