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Old 05-23-2021, 07:32 AM   #61
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by Turtle91 View Post
h3 + p, p.SceneBreak + p, div.ChapterDivision + p {text-indent:0; margin-top 2em}

All works fine for me. However, don't forget to check that your target device/app supports this kind of standard styling...
For a scene break,you don't want to use a margin-top. It doesn't work. When you have the space at the end of the page, the space gets lost. Use padding-top: 2em; as the space is not lost.

Instead of using just space or a graphic or * * * (looks awful), I use an <hr/>. The following code and it works very well.

Code:
hr {
  margin-top: 1em;
  margin-right: 40%;
  margin-bottom: 0.9em;
  margin-left: 40%;
  border-top: 2px solid;
}
Baen books does something I find just plain wrong. They indent the first paragraph of a chapter and the paragraph after a scene break. This is something I really dislike.

Then there are the books that don't indent the paragraph after some offset text. Again that just looks wrong because this is not a new scene.

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