Hi Awcross, welcome to MR!
First off, I wouldn't use fake spaces like that to create spacing between paragraphs and images, I would use margins and CSS stylesheets. Some devices intentionally ignore those empty paragraphs.
For example:
Code:
CSS:
div.image {margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:2em}
HTML:
<div class="image"><img alt="" src="../Images/test.jpg" /></div>
You can do the same thing for special paragraph spacing - like section breaks or scene changes. I would NOT do this for every paragraph in the book...let the user set their own paragraph spacing with their device settings.
Code:
CSS:
p.SceneBreak {margin-top:2em; text-indent:0}
HTML:
<p>normal paragraph</p>
<p>normal paragraph</p>
<p>normal paragraph</p>
<p class="SceneBreak">First paragraph in new scene</p>
<p>normal paragraph</p>
<p>normal paragraph</p>
Cheers,