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View Poll Results: Do you prefer blank lines after all paragraphs in an ebook? | |||
Yes. Strong preference for one after all paragraphs. | 19 | 24.68% | |
Yes, but it's not a big deal to me. | 15 | 19.48% | |
No, but it's not a big deal to me. | 19 | 24.68% | |
No. Strong preference for no blank lines. | 24 | 31.17% | |
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11-02-2008, 12:02 PM | #31 |
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11-02-2008, 01:50 PM | #34 | |
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I find that if the base font size is 12 point, then S or M on my Sony is fine. Unfortunately sometimes M isn't quite right and L becomes unreadable. I expect that in a few years we will be able to exert much finer control over text size standardly, perhaps even being able to set our readers to have a default font and margin size (which is something we should be able to do now, I would think). |
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11-02-2008, 04:17 PM | #35 |
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I have a strong preference for indented paragraphs, no intervening line, no blank pages to simulate the printed version, comfortable margins and leading (1.2% of the point size is the accepted typographical convention).
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11-03-2008, 02:15 AM | #36 |
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That's one of the things I like about the CyBook - the fact that one can choose any font with which to read a book, and the choice of 12 text sizes. Gives you a lot more control than the Sony does.
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11-03-2008, 06:21 AM | #37 |
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My personal prefference is to have a *small* space after a paragraph.
I use mostly rtf files and I set the "space after paragraph" to some small number, so the space is perhaps a milimeter wider between two paragraphs than it is between lines. 6" screen is too small for a full width empty line between paragraphs IMHO I think that you should definitely format the book the way *YOU* like it. If somebody disagrees they are welcome to post their own version. They can even try to contact you for a "source" file and tweak it to their liking with minimal effort. |
11-05-2008, 06:20 AM | #38 |
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I read a lot of fiction, which tends to have a lot of dialogue; each quote tends to be a separate paragraph. All the novels I have downloaded so far do not have spaces between paragraphs, but indents instead, which I think is correct. Some of the books can have 5-10 paragraphs per page (on a 6" screen). Imagine if a blank line was between each paragraph - as there are only 20-25 lines per page, you would waste up to 25-50% of the screen on blank lines, which is just plain daft.
There is at least one reason why people use blank lines on web sites (as indeed do I) - if you try to indent paragraphs using the tab key you not get an indent - the cursor instead jumps to another control. It is easier to tap enter twice than to enter+space+space+space+space to get an indented paragraph. |
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11-08-2008, 01:57 PM | #40 |
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Well, I was hoping this poll would clarify something like a consensus preference. No such luck. And the strong preferences make it clear that a user-selected option should be available on the reading devices.
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02-03-2009, 08:52 AM | #41 |
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About ten days ago, I uploaded Kenneth Grahame's Wind In The Willows in two forms: one with a blank line after each paragraph and one without. I see now that there have been 51 downloads of the LRF "with" and 35 of the LRF "without". Some of those downloads may simply have been the result of curiosity but otherwise it would seem to confirm that there is a sizeable fraction of MR members who prefer the blank lines. If there are any vendors of ebook readers reading this, please take note that it might be a good idea to have this as a user-selected option on their readers.
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I find personally that having a gap of a whole line between paragraphs is too much. |
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Since we use a very specific stylesheet on Feedbooks, we could imagine something like this for Calibre users: - API integration to directly download files from Feedbooks - settings based on the styles that Feedbooks use (changing the chapter headers, paragraphs, blockquote, dropcaps etc...) Otherwise I could probably offer something similar to our custom PDF option. Of course, most of these settings should be on the reading system side, except for chapter headers or dropcaps. |
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