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Old 05-18-2012, 12:44 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by GraciousMe View Post
While editing a book in Sigil I am reading Pablo´s excellent Quick and Dirty ePub Tutorial. Thank you, Pablo!

He talks about the hazards of editing in Book View and the hideous results it can create.

But is this

<p>&nbsp; </p>

really never to used?

Should all empty paragraphs be created in other ways (CSS?)?

And what about temporary bold, italic and underlined text? Surely they need no CSS?
IMHO Everything that can, should be done with a stylesheet entry. This make a One Stop place to change your mind and fine tune.

Set a FirstParagraph or additional style if needed to increase paragraph spacing with a larger margin-top:

or create a scenebreak style (very useful to control character based breaks)

The pseudo empty paragraph you show above prevents some render engines from ignoring extra whitespace

I keep seeing a reoccurring theme in your posts: 1990's lean (low bandwidth, extra-low processing, miniscule RAM) HTML coding

A fairly rich looking EPUB novel with cover is under a Meg (fits on a floppy ). There is no need to strip a book that bare
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