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Originally Posted by jackie_w
I'm not arguing with it but am interested in why you've reached this conclusion as it's never caused me any problems ... so far.
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The problem is what happens when the scene break occurs at the bottom of a page.
If the last line of the previous scene falls at the very bottom of the page then any margin-top on the first line of the next scene will be absorbed into the page margin-top of the next page (depending on how wide the page margin is), and so it can be impossible to see that there was a scene break at all.
Edit: Attached are screenshots from my Glo (3.16.0) reading
this book synced from Kobo in full-screen mode (but the effect is the same in normal mode, and it is not Kobo-specific as it happens in Calibre's ebook viewer too.) This book has a lot of scene breaks.
These two shots show a scene break made with a 1em margin split across two pages. The new scene begins
Once she arrived home ... at the top of the second page:
This shot has the margin slider adjusted to show that the 1em margin really is there before
Once she arrived home ...:
In this case it is easy to see that there is a scene break because the last paragraph of the scene ends with a very short line, but it is not always so obvious. It would be worse for those who read ragged-right, or if the opening pararaph is not flush-left.