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Originally Posted by travger
Especially as they are all like that (this is most common in-the-middle-of-chapter paragraph):
.p1 {
display: block;
font-family: Times;
font-size: 0.70588em;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal;
line-height: 1.2;
margin-bottom: 2px;
margin-left: 0;
margin-right: 0;
margin-top: 0;
text-align: justify;
text-indent: 1.25%
}
I started to dabble with html only little time ago, so please forgive if it's trivial question.
Why must every paragraph be block?
Font-family - doesn't reader have it's own settings? I personally prefer uniform font in the books I read (Can't have Times  ).
Same for size.
Style, variant, weight - won't they be reader's settings?
line-height - again reader's default?
margin-bottom: 2px - I'm not sure if mobi recognizes it
margin-left - reader's settings?
margin-right - reader's settings?
text-align: justify - reader's settings? |
Note that the style is for ".p1", that is, everything with class="p1", not just paragraphs. When deciding what to remove and what to leave there, you must take into account inheritance and usage.
For example, "display: block" is pretty useless if class="p1" is only applied to <p> tags, since paragraphs are already block-level by default, but if there's a <span class="p1">, it may be needed. "font-style: normal" is probably useless too... but maybe the generic "p" style (which would apply to all <p> tags, with or without class) is defined with "font-style: italic", or maybe <p class="p1"> paragraphs are used inside a <div> defined as italic...
Then there are some things that should not be hard-coded, but left to the reader to choose, like font family and size, justification, etc.[/quote]
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I would delete most and leave it like that:
.p1 {
margin-bottom: 2px;
margin-top: 0;
text-indent: 1.25%
}
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If that's the normal vanilla text paragraph, that's OK. But mixing vertical spacing and indent is not a very good idea, and I'd prefer a larger indent (1-1.5 em). What's more, if you plan is converting this to mobi, just remove it, leave is as default (even for ePub that would be best, if the reading application allows setting default styles).