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Originally Posted by neilmarr
[SNIP]
The current print standard (no indent on first line of a chapter or chapter section, following first paragraph lines consistently indented, no extra line breaks) was arrived at after a lengthy period of trial and error by publishers over a century or more. It's pretty well perfect, I think, and readers are used to it.
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This sure as heck matches what
I'd prefer to see on my ebook reader.
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Originally Posted by neilmarr
My own wee house still uses this layout for presentation of novels in ebook as well as treebook, though -- just now branching into non-fiction ebook-only deals -- we're using the new ebook standard of no idents and line breaks between pars.
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Nooooooo!
Say it ain't so!!!! "No indents and line breaks between pars" is... is...
YUCK! If you
must choose a layout (rather than a semantic description), please, Please, PLEASE use the current print standard!
As various prior posters have pointed out, semantic description combined with user configuration (and semi-sane defaults) would let us all have the best of both worlds.
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Originally Posted by neilmarr
Time and a few years' more experience on the part of readers and publishers will tell if this is a more practical form for novels, too. The beauty of ebooks, of course, is that it's pretty simple and none too costly to adjust to trend. Print's another matter entirely.
Cheers. Neil
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Xenophon
(who was holding back, to avoid telling you what I
really think...)