There are some who believe that
the extra space between paragraphs is easier to read in smaller format, but I like to my digital reading experience to as closely mimic the paper version as possible.
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.
General rule for indenting and spacing paragraphs: If you indent your paragraphs, don't leave
an extra space between paragraphs; if you don't indent, insert the extra space between paragraphs.
Do not allow
extra space between paragraphs.
For all their hard work, they're will be
an extra space between their paragraph and the # 2 Team this week..
While you're there in Nook, see if there are
extra spaces between paragraphs.
This means that there is not
extra spacing between paragraphs, and all paragraphs — except for the first paragraph in a chapter and the first paragraph after a scene break — are indented.
Many books are read on phones these days, and that
extra spacing between paragraphs can be irritating, especially if readers are enlarging the font because of poor eyesight / reading conditions.
Make sure your ebook doesn't have
extra spacing between paragraphs.
Many books are read on phones these days, and that
extra spacing between paragraphs can be irritating.
This means indents and
no extra spacing between paragraphs.
With the numbered paragraphs shown above, there is
no extra spacing between the paragraphs.
Not exact matches
I've seen countless books in the past year that have both a
paragraph indent and an
extra line
space between paragraphs.
joel said: > I've seen countless books in the past year > that have both a
paragraph indent > and an
extra line
space between paragraphs.
An
extra space (line)
between paragraphs (without and indent) is a change of scene... I thought?
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.
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.
Many legal documents have single
spaced paragraphs with an
extra blank line
between each
paragraph.