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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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Also, you'll notice that .spacebreak looks incomplete. What's not there is picked up from the p. So when you have <p class="spacebreak"> you get the p has and just what .spacebreak overrides it and/or adds to it. |
... which is good design. It allows you to make "global" changes to <p> that affect both default paragraphs and those with styles applied via the class=.
Personally, I prefer to indent paragraphs after a simple scene break and to not indent the first paragraph in the chapter. To do this I have both a "spacebreak" style and a "firstparagraph" style in my CSS, one with an indent and the other with no indent.
Traditionally with "antique" paper books a 3em indent is very common. Ebooks are generally much better off with a smaller indent of 1-1.5em. Personally, I use 1em.