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Originally Posted by Ankh

The more generic form:

p{
   text-indent: 0em;
}

p+p {
   text-indent: 1.5em;
}

would work for all of these cases, provided that section break markers (whatever they are, fleurons, asterisks, nonbreakable spaces) are enclosed in <div> block.

I like this from an economy of coding point of view, but I don't write like this because it doesn't express my mental model.

That is, I think of the indentation as being:

Paragraphs in general are indented by XXX space on the first line, except for the first paragraph in a section, which is not indented.


I don't really think of it as being:

Paragraphs are not indented, unless they follow another paragraph.