Just be sure to uncheck the box that says «Don't
add space between paragraphs of the same style.
Click the launcher arrow in the lower right - hand corner to go to the Paragraph dialog box, uncheck the box next to «Don't
add space between paragraphs of the same style.»
Margins in the Kindle are not very easy to format, but there are some tricks that will allow you to
add some space between your paragraphs.
I mentioned in a previous article to use InDesign's Space Before and / or Space After controls in your paragraph styles to
add space between paragraphs.
Using the directions above, uncheck the Don't
add space between paragraphs of the same style and make sure Auto is selected for space above and below.
Microsoft Word's default Normal style in older versions of Word is set to not
add space between paragraphs by default so authors learned to add them in manually with extra paragraph breaks instead of modifying the style settings.
However,
adding space between paragraphs, as I said in the article, is redundant if you're already using indented paragraphs, in my opinion.
When I downloaded it from the store it would not center text, except for headers (which it turned into all caps) and would not indent quotes and
adds a space between each paragraph so poetry looks strange.
Use single - spaced lines with
an added space between each paragraph, after the salutation, and above the closing.
Not exact matches
If you had
added spacing after in your
paragraph dialog box for the Heading, you do not need to have more than one line return
between the chapter title / number and the first line of your first
paragraph.
Common formatting includes indenting
paragraphs,
adding space between text, and centering images.
Use
paragraph indents (usually about a quarter of an inch), and don't
add an extra
space in
between paragraphs, which is more common and appropriate for online texts.
If necessary use the «
Space before» and «Space after» property to add white space between paragraphs or before head
Space before» and «
Space after» property to add white space between paragraphs or before head
Space after» property to
add white
space between paragraphs or before head
space between paragraphs or before headings.
Some of the main things you have to do are the following: create universal
paragraph indentation (you can not use the TAB key and you have to delete all tabs); insert page breaks
between chapters; single
space the text with a common font (12 - pt Times New Roman, for example); insert graphics directly in Word; and
add a copyright page at the front.
However, if the publisher's «house style» is based on automatically indenting the first line of each new
paragraph, or the page layout automatically
adds extra
space between paragraphs, the manuscript will be formatted with far too much
space between paragraphs if the author has
added an extra line
between each
paragraph.
(2)
Add sufficient white
space between paragraphs or chapters.
Hyphenation and improved
spacing — Kindle Paperwhite
adds hyphenation to break words at the right place, creates
paragraphs with consistent lines, and adjusts the
space between words.
Leave
space between paragraphs and
add a one - inch margin at each side for maximum readability.
Keep bullets to two or three lines and
add at least a half - inch of white
space -LRB-.5 points in MS Word) in
between your bullets and
paragraphs.