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Originally Posted by hobnail

Speaking of indents, the guy who did the ebooks on the now defunct University Adelaide ebook page had a clever hack for automating it with CSS:

p {
    text-indent: 0;
}

p + p {
    text-indent: 1.5em;
}

It's a bit confusing at first because that first rule would make me think that paragraphs don't get indented, but that rule matches all paragraphs that aren't after another paragraph.

But I'm not sure it's a viable setup; it doesn't indent any paragraph that follows a div, blockquote, figure, img, etc. which looks odd to me. I prefer to do the more usual thing, set indent on all paragraphs to 1.5em, then have stuff like

h2 + p, h3 + p {
    text-indent: 0;
}

My personal preference is that the first paragraph after a scene break is also not indented. And that gets a bit messy since some scene breaks use a graphic while others use almost anything from a simple blank line to a header.

But as pdurrant said, "be consistent". To me, that is the most important rule.