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Originally Posted by HarryT
Allow me to clarify that I like both a first line indentation (1.5em is my default setting) and a small separation.
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Same here. Nearly anyway (1.2em/0.2em). Not meeting those preferences
alone won't give me any problem consuming the content comfortably. But if I've got to some other reformatting to do on a book, those changes will be added (if it doesn't take a major overhaul to accomplish).
To those who espouse the idea that "
paper books didn't do X, so why should ebooks?", I suggest pulling down a random sampling of print books from your shelves (from random genres) that were published over the last sixty-years, or so, to notice how truly inconsistent print typography was as well. Especially with regard to first-line indents and paragraph spacing. Print layout was all over the place too. We just ignored it because there was nothing we could do about it
The "
this is the way it was always done in print" claim is a myth. There never was a standard everyone adhered to.