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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The carry-over does not get an indent if it's part of the paragraph that starts on the previous page. If it's a quoted paragraph, then the quotes are where they belong.
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You ignore the first sentence in that parenthesis: "And ending a paragraph with the last complete sentence is going to make a new paragraph, isn't it?"
So you have a paragraph beginning with a quote. The third sentence carries over to the next "page." So the second sentence almost certainly ends with a short line, which telegraphs to the reader that the paragraph has ended. Now we turn the "page" and find that the apparent next paragraph not only isn't indented (as you predict will happen) but doesn't begin with the quotation mark -- but ends with one!
I see a very confused reader. It would be rather like reading a Bernie Gunther novel, which is forever changing speakers within the same paragraph, requiring me to go back and do a mental he said / she said to figure out who's talking.
The whole thing is idiotic. What's wrong with a carry-over line of four words or even one?