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Old 05-04-2010, 04:51 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by NASCARaddicted View Post
Well,basically I gotta say: yes, I want margins to change with the font size.

O.k. I admit, sometimes it ain't so good: for example when it's something like the start of a chapter, I use top margin 5 em, so that there is some space before the chapter title.

However, especially when it comes to "characters per line", I see it different. With my CSS, when a new paragraph starts, it starts with a text intend of 1.5 em. And I removed the empty line between 2 paragraphs, so it really looks like a paper book.
Defining paragraph intents in "em" is absolutely fine. Same applies to line indents for poetry; you want them to scale with the text.

What you probably DON'T want is for your overall PAGE margins to scale with the text. I always define page margins in points, so they are fixed.
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