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Old 10-03-2015, 10:13 PM   #17
Turtle91
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Originally Posted by GeoffR View Post

Simply adding a margin to the top of the first paragraph of a scene to indicate the break is a bad idea because that margin could be absorbed into the @page margin if the scene happens to begin at the top of a page, and if the reader has chosen to read ragged right then there may be no way to tell that there was a break at all.
Excellent point! although I'm not sure what ragged right has to do with it?? Wouldn't justified be just as difficult to determine?

I make a scenebreak non-indented as well to handle that particular instance.
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