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Originally Posted by dickloraine
There is one thing I wished that could be as easily changed as font sizes: The margin and indentation of the main paragraph. In fiction I hate that style which has blank space between paragraphs. It is seldom used in fiction, but I stumble over it often enough. Nearly as irritating are those publishers who insert a tiny margin between paragraphs. And then there are the people who love this style. So changing between them would be quite nice. Oh, and strangly I prefer no indentation and a margin sometimes in non-fiction. That's a feature I would like. But of course using calibre or sigil can fix this, it is just tedious to do.
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Well...if they're done correctly, it should not be
that tedious. You can see how you can't, on the devices, really make it "push-button," as most fiction books will have at least 3 paragraph styles (first--the first paragraph of a chapter, usually flush-left; p, the typical first-line indent, and for ours, at least, p.copyright, which is a flush-left with no space between, so you can build copyright pages and others like that where the no-space between, no indentation can be used for whatever reasons), and automating that would be beyond difficult, right?
Assuming you had something like that--3 styles, or even 5-6, all you have to do is modify them, and you should have what you want. Of course--that assumes that the builder made it correctly. If it's a badly-crafted book, of course...yeah, that would be beyond tedious.Like making a book from a crappy source file the first-time through.
(posted mostly for the benefit of the noobs who may come along and read this rather lengthy thread!)
Hitch