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Old 02-13-2011, 05:33 AM   #14
DMSmillie
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Notice how that takes less space on your screen? Well, it also looks better too.
The first is objective and observable, the second is entirely subjective and a matter of personal preference.

It's true that the convention in book formatting is to indent the first line of a paragraph (except when it's the first paragraph following a chapter or section heading) and have no space between paragraphs. But that's just a convention - something which most likely came into being through a desire on the part of publishers and printers to minimise the number of pages required to print a book and as a result minimise the cost of printing a book. We've all simply become used to it when reading printed books. I respect the fact that you think it looks better like that, but I don't agree that that automatically means it look better to everyone.
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