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Originally Posted by Jellby
Just to add to the confusion: some print books use spacing as "scene break", but if the scene break happens to fall at a page boundary, it is marked with an asterism of some sort. This makes the reader aware that there is a scene break, something that would be easily missed if it was only marked with spacing/indent.
1. Has this been successfully done in ePub books?
2. Since I believe it cannot be reliably done, I prefer to always use asterisms. Sure, extra spacing can be enforced, but it's easy to miss at the top/bottom of a page.
3. Unfortunately, it makes too many ebook conversions to "exactly" match the print version and have two kinds of scene breaks: with spacing and with asterism. It looks like they have different meanings, but they have not!
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2. Empty space can be reliably done. I use
padding-top: 2em and that works even if the section/scene break falls at the bottom/top of the screen. Plus, you should have the first paragraph of the new section be non-indented. Using
margin-top: 2em is not reliable and doesn't work for the bottom/top of the page.