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Originally Posted by roland1
So it's agreed—a full inch on each side? 
Okay. That's three votes for "0"; the people have spoken.
Thanks, guys/gals. Much appreciated.
P.S. I've seen where some printed books add paragraph spacing. Similarly, it was also more traditional to add space on both sides of an em space, like this:
wurdz(space)—(space)more wurdz as opposed to—this crowded crap. I use the space because I think it's tidier; it breathes better. It actually looks like someone's trying to say something that's separate from the main text.
Point: all kinds of ways to do stuff out there. But I agree that a simple css convention will probably do my ebooks a world of good. |
Just a gentle note on emdashes and ellipses:
don't forget, eReading devices are not the Robert Oppenheimers of the rendering world. They render top-down, left-right (in the Eurocentric world, anyway). They don't "know" that an emdash shouldn't just start a new line, or this or that. So, you typically want to anchor it somehow. Don't anchor it with a non-breaking space, because in the eBook world, a non-breaking space is like a train schedule in Mexico--it's a suggestion, not a rule.
We anchor our emdashes and hellips (and for those customers that make me want to scream, the nbsp-dot-nbsp-dot-nbsp-dot) to the PRECEDING word, and use a space after to facilitate an attempt at decent typography.
Hitch