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Originally Posted by teh603
You use what works, and works in as many places as possible. If I was to GPL a chapter or so and publish it on dA, it'd help if I could have the two formatted more or less the same.
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I still don't think that "what works in as many places as possible" equates to "good practice", though I'll accept that it's practical. I think we may have to agree to disagree on that point.
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Originally Posted by teh603
There's also the small fact that I write using a Linux equivalent of Notepad, so there's no other way to tell where my own paragraphs begin and end but to manually indent. Its easy enough to strip out in the finished manuscript before setting up the style sheet and all that. It also makes "nuclear formatting removal" a lot easier since the formatting was never there to begin with. Just start a blank document and re-import each .txt file in turn.
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I write using Geany on Linux, using HTML markup. Personally, I always have line numbers displayed, and I think they serve to show where paragraphs are quite well. Alternatively, you could use blank lines between paragraphs.
Depending on which text editor you're using, it should be reasonably simple to remove the tabs in your text file before you import into Libre Office or whatever.