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Originally Posted by Notjohn
That's interesting, thanks!
One of the workarounds for uploading Word docs, when the author-publisher wants the first paragraph (or indeed any paragraph) to have no indented first line, is to specify an indent of 0.01 inch, enough to satisfy Amazon that there IS an indent, but small enough to fool the reader into seeing none. This seems to work just fine. Is there any danger to it?
(Many or most author-publishers wouldn't touch html with a pica rule, so there's no point in recommending that approach!)
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That workaround was, IIRC, "way back" when people were trying to get that to happen with Word. Which is WEIRD as hell, given that it's ripped into HTML first--why the difference?
I've never had to use it for flush-left. Ever. (In fact, that's the infamous reason that the Tech Acct Mgr at KDP at Amazon first called me, in early 2010--they asked me how I was making flush-left first-paras. I didn't know it was a big deal, LOL. I gave them the CSS I had. I simply have a style that doesn't have an indent. Cheerfully, that phone convo and the few that followed were how I got on their list. Of course, NOT so cheerfully, it's also how they asked me to donate time at the KDP forums to help DIY'ers, which after 5 years, I've now given up doing. Sorry, I digress...). Of course, I never did make eBooks from Word; even when I first started, I was using MBPC, from HTML, no matter how bad my HTML was, in the aughts.
So...I don't think that there's any reason to try to use that any longer. Maybe, if you're using Word (don't know if that's been fixed or not), but certainly not in HTML, XHTML, ePUB, etc.
Hitch