Thread: Exporting epub with InDesign: I lose blank lines!
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Old 11-12-2023, 11:44 AM   #65
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Originally Posted by Turtle91 View Post
Certainly, if you are trying to achieve a specific effect, but use css to achieve it (as you mentioned). I agree, indent (preferable) OR spacing, but not both. The devices JSWolf mentioned which don’t have a setting for paragraph spacing are, by default, pushing the indent.

To clarify my response from above: inserting a blank paragraph breaks the paragraph spacing functionality on most of the devices/apps that support it. That functionality is intended to let the user set the reading environment as THEY wish. Empty paragraph markers don’t allow the user to have indents with zero paragraph space… and at least double the paragraph spacing the user selects (on devices with that functionality).

Manually inserting empty paragraphs to create space between paragraphs is, at minimum, bad form…
Even making paragraph spaces in CSS is bad form. A lot of people are unable to remove paragraph spaces due to DRM or no knowledge of how to do so.
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