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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
I prefer white space between the paragraphs, preferable about 1/2 of a line. When doing this, I prefer a visual marker (such as "***") centered on a line by itself between the paragraphs to clearly indicate a scene change.
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Originally Posted by BenG
Yes, the asterisks are preferable for a scene change because its easy for the double line space to be lost during conversions.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But only if you use the option to remove line spaces. But even still, you can end up with a mess.
This is what's preferable...
text
small space
* * *
small space
text
But if you remove line spacing, you can end up with...
text
* * *
text
which does not look as good. It's just easy to go into the CSS and change the code that gives excess line spacing. It's what I do so section breaks don't break.
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The main reason I prefer a visual marker is to avoid the potential ambiguity when using white space to indicate a scene change since there are a number of competing methods of laying out ebook text. Whether there is or is not white space around the marker, the marker itself provides a clear visual cue for a scene change, and I prefer it over white space even when the paragraphs are initially indented.