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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Ick.
I like my paragraphs to have a little character. Something to make them not look exactly like the previous and the next one. Sometimes, I switch to ragged-right when reading simply because I get tired of staring at screen after screen of sterile, justified text.  |
Actually, the thought of reading/viewing page after page of blocked text, stretching from margin-to-margin, with, what, a line of white between each, so you know it's a new para, (because even just using first-line indent alone would still have, IMHO, serious massing/volume issues) kinda makes me want to hurl. That's fine for manuals, but for novels, or anything I'm going to have to read, sequentially and in a sitting that will be a block of time... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
Yeah, I kinda like the plain-old, plain old, first-line-indent, occasionally justified, sometimes not, text for "bulk" reading. I have lost track of how many manuscripts I get in here from authors who use block paragraphs, with a line of horizontal whitespace between, and I find it horribly unconducive to ease of reading. JMHO, natch.
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