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Originally Posted by Quoth
I think madness to replicate paper styles, especially if the Published is carried away with SMALL CAPS, drop caps, giant colophons etc. IMO the centred * * * does for a major scene break and ~ for a minor break.
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I find to me, if you have different ways of designating a section break, it looks like an error. Like some eBooks that use a space for a section break and because the pBook uses * * * to designate a section break at the end of a printed page, it looks off. I would use the same mark for a section break. I now use a 20% 2px line to designate section breaks.
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Most styling and formatting (except for maybe poetry) is an invention of the publisher and not in the intent of the author. I offer simpler solutions (always accepted except once) to an author that goes mad on format/style. With one I sent back MSS with over 1000 … and — removed. He'd just discovered how to type them! It was accepted. I had left in some!
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I do agree that what's done in print does not always work for an eBook. All that wasted space for the chapter header, different size fonts where they should (IMHO) be the same size, smaller then 1em for the body text size, blockquotes that are using too wide a L/R margin and sometimes a smaller font size, L/R margins that are too wide, paragraph spaces, line height, and other things that don't work well for eBooks.
Then there is ... with spaces (no) and em dashes with spaces (no).
It's just a mess what can be done to eBooks that do not need to be done.