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Originally Posted by teh603
I'm a little troubled by their nagging dependence on Word- and particularly how they spell it out in full every single time. These guys aren't an MS subsidiary, are they? Edit: Ok, they got less annoying about spelling it out later in the formatting guide.
I'm *particularly* troubled by their comment that using spaces or tabs to make indentation is "bad formatting." These guys have clearly never had to upload to sites whose text manglers strip out any attempt at indent-based formatting.
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It's just that it's bad
for them, and their take-one-and-convert-to-all system. And when you consider that some reading devices, eg, cell phones and PDAs, have very small screens that can lose a lot of a line taken up by indents and tab spaces, their POV does make a point.
True, I think we all wished Smashwords had chosen HTML to upload copy. It would make all of our lives easier.
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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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That's because trolls are too lazy to write and format properly.