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Originally Posted by jackie_w
Whether or not 'empty' nonbreaking space paragraphs are the 'right' or 'wrong' way to add scenebreaks, surely the important point is that there must be hundreds of thousands of existing books already on sale at Amazon which have already chosen this 'wrong' method. Based on my own extensive observations of hand-editing ebooks I'd say at least 50% of the retail books I see have used the 'empty paragraph' method.
Interestingly, both the Sigil and calibre editors have had past releases where nonbreaking spaces were wrongly converted to normal spaces. Both development teams made it a priority to fix the problem (IIRC Sigil had a few regressions along the way). If developers of free software are conscientious enough to fix the problem surely a professional outfit as big as Amazon should be expected to do so. Asking every book creator to re-process their old books would be ridiculous (IMHO).
As a customer I'd be pretty annoyed if all my scenebreaks were silently stripped.
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This is why it's most likely best to use a marker for a scene break instead of blank space.
I do fix when blank lines are created with non-breaking spaces. I find that just bad form even if it's valid code.