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Küldte: bining on Jul 20 2019, 07:42 AM

Besides being here at the warriorforum, I also haunt a newsgroup of independent publishers. Some of these folks publish dozens of books written by many different authors, and I asked their opinions. When I add only 4/100 of an inch (1 millimeter) extra space between paragraphs, doing so seems to make the layout easier to read, but the comments at the newsgroup of publishers say that extra space looks amateurish.

Küldte: fillerjupiter on Jul 20 2019, 07:42 AM

That is all that matters. The problem with that crowd is they seem to write more for other writers and care how it makes them look to other writers - when the focus should be on the reader.

Küldte: ambiguousscourge on Jul 20 2019, 07:43 AM

For Kindle ( non fiction ) you shouldn't hit return twice. Instead set the paragraph settings to increase the spacing between paragraphs. This way you hit the return key once and it will give the appearance of your second sample. More Info here https://www.ebookifi.com/

Küldte: bining on Jul 20 2019, 07:43 AM

I doubt the average reader takes leading (the space between lines and paragraphs, for those unfamiliar with the term) into account unless it makes the page harder to read. What the folks in your newsgroup seem to be saying is that anyone who does things differently than they do is "amateurish". I worry more about the opinions backed by credit cards than those added to shop talk.

Küldte: fillerjupiter on Jul 20 2019, 07:43 AM

One reason traditional publishers spurn the block letter style for books is that when a paragraph happens to end at the end of a page, and goes all the way to the right margin, there is no way to signal that the paragraph that follows on the next page is actually a separate paragraph rather than the continuation of the previous paragraph. It is a very clutzy looking style in this and other ways.