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Originally Posted by Hitch
In fiction, that's true. Non-fiction, obviously, not so much, and it terms of "other" spacing, of course, fiction has had scene-breaks forever, that affect the spacing. Nonfiction's always had it with heads, subheads, run-in heads and so on and so forth.
My point being, whether it's spacing, fonts, justification versus not, etc., somehow, everyone managed to survive it, without keeling over dead from the horror, when they only had print books. I don't recall a lot of Sturm und Drang at the bookstore, from appalled and horrified buyers, banding together with pitchforks to go slay the typographer or the publisher.
So, like everything else in self-publishing (like people complaining to Amazon about--gasp!--typos, and expecting them to be fixed RIGHT AWAY!), the immediacy of digital publishing and self-gratification has affected the view of how important or how unlivable these things are.
That's all.
Hitch
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Yes, of course. Now that I know I can, I want to fix all the irritations right away.
BTW, I've no beef with scene breaks, nor the spacing before and after quotes, letters and the like. It's the spaces between
any and all paragraphs that bother me.