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AlanHK · 04-02-2022, 02:41 AM

I've see a few books using this CSS:

p{margin:0;text-align:justify;}
p+p{text-indent:1.4em;}

This idea being that the first para of a section after a heading was unindented, as it should be, the following indented.

And this works in epub readers. But when converted to AZW3 and loaded in a Kindle (PW3 with 5.10.3) I found it erratic. Every few pages a paragraph would be unindented. Checking the source, the paras were all <p>.

Also, if I changed the fontsize, reflowed the text, often the para in question would become indented.

So is this a bug in the AZW3 or is the Kindle renderer itself buggy? Has this been fixed in later versions?

In any case, I'm giving up using this "+" trick as unreliable.

04-02-2022, 02:41 AM	#1
AlanHK Guru Posts: 681 Karma: 929286 Join Date: Apr 2014 Device: PW-3, iPad, Android phone	p+p indent flaky I've see a few books using this CSS: p{margin:0;text-align:justify;} p+p{text-indent:1.4em;} This idea being that the first para of a section after a heading was unindented, as it should be, the following indented. And this works in epub readers. But when converted to AZW3 and loaded in a Kindle (PW3 with 5.10.3) I found it erratic. Every few pages a paragraph would be unindented. Checking the source, the paras were all <p>. Also, if I changed the fontsize, reflowed the text, often the para in question would become indented. So is this a bug in the AZW3 or is the Kindle renderer itself buggy? Has this been fixed in later versions? In any case, I'm giving up using this "+" trick as unreliable. Last edited by AlanHK; 04-02-2022 at 02:52 AM.