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Originally Posted by pilcrowphile

For reference, I'm hand coding with kindlegen, and using style sheets from books where this has worked previously.

Basically, I'm used to forcing the chapter heading down a few spaces by using a couple <p>&nbsp;</p>. This has never been an issue before.

So now I'm working on a new client's book (non fiction rather than fiction for the first time, so the paragraphs have spaces between them and no indenting, via p {text-indent: 0; margin-top:0.6em;} )

Now, when I do a dummy copy (I usually start with a blank version of my book, with just a cover, title page, TOC and first chapter with a bit of dummy text).

The book seems to come all right, but when I pop it the kindle ap on my smartphone, the only bumpdown that works is on the title page. Everything else is flush with the top.

So I try setting a special 'top' class of paragraph, first with 2em margin top then with 24pt margin top, no change.

I try changing the CSS on the H3 with a larger margin-top, no change.

Then I even go back and grab the old html of another book, where I've got a copy of the book where the bumpdown works. I strip out most of the body, and try rerunning it... and the bumpdown appears to have disappeared as well.

This is driving me up a wall! I expected to be done with this book by now, but I've spent the last 3 hours trying various trouble shooting attempts at getting there to be a little whitespace above the chapter headings.

Any ideas what might be going on?

Have you tried using a % with a header class, instead of a paragraph class? Why are you using a para class for a chapter head? And when you say, "client," do you mean paying work?

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