Inhibit indentation of first paragraph of quotation

Question

I'm using LyX. Would it be possible to format something as "quotation" in a way in which the first paragraph doesn't get indented but the subsequent paragraphs does, like the way in which text formatted as "standard" in most classes doesn't indent first paragraphs?

I read somewhere than indentation of quotations is language specific but I've tried formatting the text as Danish, German and English with the same result.

Answer 1

My quoting package provides a consolidated environment for displayed text with control over first-line indentation. Without LyX, one simply doesn't add a blank line before the start of the environment and hereby prevents indentation:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{quoting}

\newcommand*{\sometext}{Hello, here is some text without a meaning. This
    text should show, how a printed text will look like at this place.
    If you read this text, you will get no information.}

\begin{document}

\sometext
% <-- No indentation of first `quoting` line
\begin{quoting}
\sometext

\sometext
\end{quoting}

\sometext

\end{document}

With LyX it may be difficult to avoid "blank lines", but you may use the indentfirst=false option when adding the package to your LaTeX preamble:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[indentfirst=false]{quoting}

\newcommand*{\sometext}{Hello, here is some text without a meaning. This
    text should show, how a printed text will look like at this place.
    If you read this text, you will get no information.}

\begin{document}

\sometext

\begin{quoting}
\sometext

\sometext
\end{quoting}

\sometext

\end{document}

Output for both examples: