I have never been able to get the first section of an abstract to be flush with the left side of the page in Rmarkdown. When I render the following MRE 'Premise' will be inserted about 2 tabs closer to the center than it should be. 'Methods and Results' and 'Conclusions' will both be correct.
I have played extensively with adding tabs and trying to drop the vertical bars, and quoting the abstract contents but just cannot figure out the magic combination to stop this behaviour.
---
title: 'A few people may read this thing'
author: |
| $^1$Research Institute
| $^2$University
| Person$^1$^[Author for Correspondence: human@place.org], Other Person$^1$$^,$$^2$
abstract: |
**Premise:** We did stuff.
**Methods and Results:** We used and developed stuff to accomplish stuff.
**Conclusions:** You too can do stuff.
keywords: |
rmarkdown, latex, weird indent in abstract
output:
pdf_document: default
---
# Introduction
You can use the LaTeX macro \noindent to suppress the indent at the start of a paragraph. In your Rmd document that could look like this:
---
title: 'A few people may read this thing'
author: |
| $^1$Research Institute
| $^2$University
| Person$^1$^[Author for Correspondence: human@place.org], Other Person$^1$$^,$$^2$
abstract: |
\noindent
**Premise:** We did stuff.
**Methods and Results:** We used and developed stuff to accomplish stuff.
**Conclusions:** You too can do stuff.
keywords: |
rmarkdown, latex, weird indent in abstract
output:
pdf_document: default
---
# Introduction