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Originally Posted by weberr
Hitch -- purely personal choice and a peculiarly strong offense at less than perfection. If the author, including myself, for his own reasons, felt it essential to his flow of story to make and print it as one long and continuous paragraph, then I just naturally want to duplicate that objective in an ebook form. Yes, I could use Sigil and edit the individual files to my satisfaction and then make it one giant html file at the end -- which probably will choke some readers. But, what's the big deal about not including such a command in the spec and ebook readers being designed to act properly on such a command. After all, judging by the traffic on this one thread/subject over so many years, a lot of us want that capability. After all, its all just software.
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One long
paragraph?
Wow. Well...no matter what you do, it's going to have paragraph breaks inserted for no apparent reason on pages (screens) where you think that they should not occur, and yes, it will choke some readers, unfortunately. (Depending on length, it might even choke a Nook).
But I know what it's like (oh, do I) to work with someone's artistic vision. I'd recommend that you break it up at some intervals to make your life easier while working on it in Sigil, and then use "merge file" to put it all back together into one single, uninterrupted file, just so it works rapidly (Sigil).
Best of luck! Let us all know when it comes out.
Hitch