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Originally Posted by theducks
Every device I have has its internal Defaults (some also have user settings)
So there is no need to spec base Line spacing. Margins or Blockquotes.
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And actually on a lot of apps and ereaders:
Left & right margins can only be set larger, not smaller.
If line-height is set at all, then the user can't change it at all. The Font metrics automatically set a line-height, which the user can override.
The first top margin on a first new page (caused by file change) may be stripped, thus padding-top is better for something at the start of a file (normally one per chapter or similar division) and likely any bottom margin at the end of a file is stripped. But it depends on the app or ereader.
Blockquotes are a throwback to HTML3. They might be semantically appropriate for an actual quote, but for stanzas, preambles, quoted letters and many things simply an appropriate CSS for <p class="something-more-indented"> is better. Similarly automatic lists are tricky in HTML and are better as a paragraph style with inverted margins and manually entered indexes, which allows a gap and restarting at next number, whereas the auto HTML list in an ebook can usually only start at 1st index.