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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
When it comes to section breaks/point of view changes, I prefer a simple visual marker on a line by itself. I normally use "~~~" centered on a line by itself with a blank line above and below because it's simple and should be able to be consistently generated in any format since the "~" character itself is plain text. It's also distinctive regardless of the spacing between the paragraphs.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I'll go with whatever the author put in to indicate a section break. But I do like having the first paragraph after a section break to not be indented so we can easily tell it's the first paragraph of a new section.
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Since I put a certain amount of space after every paragraph (I prefer 12 points), I normally don't indent the first line of each paragraph since it isn't needed and the section break marks clearly separate the sections.
Relating to the choice of an ebook format (the topic of discussion in this part of the thread), I'd prefer one that is essentially a flat file that can be formatted and edited with something as simple as a text editor. I do like the idea of a format that leaves most, if not all, of the display choices to the ebook reader while the format takes are of what the parts of the ebook are.
One format that is an example of this is the Palm Reader format, where the final ebook is generated from a plain text file that's basically a simplified version of HTML. Its markup language can be easily mastered and has most of the features needed for an ebook format.