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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Actually, it's uncivilized to have them. It distracts the eyes as you read. You are reading this nice text and then boom, the eyes get distracted because of the blank space. Blank space is supposed to say to the reader, it's a new section. It's not supposed to say oh, it's a new paragraph. That's just wrong is so many ways.
I have seen a lot of publisher use a .3em paragraph space and while it's readable, it's not optimal.
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Nah. Paragraphs need spacing. Paragraphs without spacing is like mixing your soup and salad and main course and dessert into one single bowl and chomping away. Civilised folk don't get distracted by having to change dishes over the course of a meal and civilised folk don't get distracted by spaces between paragraphs. What is jarring is paragraphs running into each other with no distinction whatsoever. People shouldn't be miserly with their dishes and cutlery, and people shouldn't be miserly with their screen real estate. It's just good taste to have the spaces between paragraphs.