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Originally Posted by cybmole
but at some point it surely becomes simpler to have 2 styles e.g.
1. class="para1" - for 1st paragraphs, styled to have zero indent, set margins to taste ( also useful after a scene break)
2. class = "para" for all other paragraphs, set indent & margins to taste
rather than a complicated h3+p... expression that will need editing whenever you come
up with a new way of starting a chapter ?
so your book now has 1 x body 1 x header , 2 x paragraph styles.
add extra styles e.g. for italics, if needed, or to have different indents and/or text sizes for such narrative things as diary entries, book extracts, signage, notes slipped under doors....
...but don't go overboard on that stuff, big chunks of bold or italicised text may look ok on the printed page but can look awful on an e-reader
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It
is really
simpler. (except for the expectation of a Exactly consistent layout)
Using Jellby's example: Notice that there are
No class= statements.
You are styling standard tags.
Consider the: h3 + p {font-face: italic }
could be used to modify the style of the first paragraph after the h3 to be
just a italic variation on the standard P tag used in the book.
All any section (file) needs is the <link to the stylesheet >
Nothing else.
Can't get much simpler.