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Originally Posted by phillipgessert
A lot of those style decisions are meant to more efficiently move that information to your brain, based on content. For example, paragraph spacing for non-fiction can make a text easier to scan, whereas indents for fiction can help you maintain momentum when moving from one paragraph to the next. So you may not be a car guy, but I bet you'll agree that a racecar isn't well suited for a move, and a moving truck isn't well-suited for a race.
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I have to disagree on non-fiction. What works to read fiction also works to read non-fiction. Paragraph spaces don't work. They cause the eyes to see the space and it slows down reading. Also if you have no indent, it means you need to see the space in order to know you've moved to another paragraph. The indents are a quick indication that we've moved to a new paragraph. But if you have a section break, it's oK to not have an indent on the first paragraph of the new section as we've seen the section break and know we are coming up on a new paragraph in a new section.