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Originally Posted by dwig
... which is good design. It allows you to make "global" changes to <p> that affect both default paragraphs and those with styles applied via the class=.
Personally, I prefer to indent paragraphs after a simple scene break and to not indent the first paragraph in the chapter. To do this I have both a "spacebreak" style and a "firstparagraph" style in my CSS, one with an indent and the other with no indent.
Traditionally with "antique" paper books a 3em indent is very common. Ebooks are generally much better off with a smaller indent of 1-1.5em. Personally, I use 1em.
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A lot of Mobipocket eBooks use 5% as an indent. Sure, on a computer screen, that may not bee too bad, but on a small screen, it's hideous.
I did try a 1em indent. It just wasn't quite big enough. 1.5em was too big. So I settled for 1.2em.
Personally, I do like the nonindented paragraph after the section break. IT makes it obvious that it's the start of a new section. What I really dislike is when the maker of the eBook is too stupid to take out the * * * for the end of the print page section breaks.