For reference, I'm hand coding with kindlegen, and using style sheets from books where this has worked previously.
Basically, I'm used to forcing the chapter heading down a few spaces by using a couple <p> </p>. This has never been an issue before.
So now I'm working on a new client's book (non fiction rather than fiction for the first time, so the paragraphs have spaces between them and no indenting, via p {text-indent: 0; margin-top:0.6em;} )
Now, when I do a dummy copy (I usually start with a blank version of my book, with just a cover, title page, TOC and first chapter with a bit of dummy text).
The book seems to come all right, but when I pop it the kindle ap on my smartphone, the only bumpdown that works is on the title page. Everything else is flush with the top.
So I try setting a special 'top' class of paragraph, first with 2em margin top then with 24pt margin top, no change.
I try changing the CSS on the H3 with a larger margin-top, no change.
Then I even go back and grab the old html of another book, where I've got a copy of the book where the bumpdown works. I strip out most of the body, and try rerunning it... and the bumpdown appears to have disappeared as well.
This is driving me up a wall! I expected to be done with this book by now, but I've spent the last 3 hours trying various trouble shooting attempts at getting there to be a little whitespace above the chapter headings.
Any ideas what might be going on?