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Originally Posted by teh603
More like the word processor that most of America has been strongarmed into using. But that's another topic for another time.
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"Popular" may have been a bad choice of word, but it's certainly widely used, and not just in America.
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Originally Posted by teh603
Its bad practice, until you try uploading to other sites. Both deviantart and goodreads.com try to strip indents out as often as possible; dA at least allows indents based on space characters, while goodreads strips out anything and everything that looks like indentation- spaces, indent characters, crafted HTML tags, tabs, everything. I expected better from goodreads, but then again I'm not the guy who wrote their parsers.
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I'd argue that using styles is good practice, and not using them is bad practice. Other sites may force you to use bad practices, but that doesn't stop them being bad practices. Back in the day, web designers used to use all sorts of nasty tricks to make websites that would work in Internet Explorer because it didn't support the standards properly. IE was by far the most-used browser, and that made the use of these nasty tricks more-or-less obligatory, but it didn't make them good practice.
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Originally Posted by teh603
You also don't seem to have tried asking the community of either site for help in getting indents to work; the general concensus from both is that "grammar needs to catch up to the internet, and indents are so last-century." The whole topic of formatting a document to look professional is troll bait.
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I haven't asked either community for help, you're right.
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Originally Posted by teh603
Not everyone knows about smashwords when they're first starting out, and what may "officially" be a bad habit on one site might be the only way someone can get something remotely passable on a majority of the others.
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I'm not saying it's a bad habit for files intended for Smashwords. I personally think that using styles is good practice in general, and that using tabs or spaces to indent is bad practice in general.
To be honest, I still don't understand why you said:
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Originally Posted by teh603
I'm *particularly* troubled by their comment that using spaces or tabs to make indentation is "bad formatting."
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Do you think using spaces or tabs is good formatting? Why?