On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 02:43:34PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
On 18-Mar-10 13:15:58, Chris G wrote:
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:29:04AM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
On 18 Mar 10:13, Chris G wrote:
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:34:23AM +0000, Marcus Harris wrote:
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Of course, paragraphs *should* have white space between them, for readability... but hey...
Absolutely, but in this case I'm simply trying to get a heading to nestle closely above a table, I quite agree that paragraphs should have space between them.
-- Chris Green
Should? Not necessarily, Chris! There are several ways of meking one paragraph nicely distinct from another, depending on the paragraph style. The simplest of these is the plain old indented first line of the paragraph, of course, which I am laboriously and with tongue in cheek typing now. I don't know (not being an HTML author) to what extent one can arrange this kind of thing in HTML. Perhaps it looks too much like yukky old printing on paper for the modern eye.
It wasn't me said "paragraphs *should* have white space between them"!
I do think that computers have changed the way we lay out text though, as you say indenting of the first line of paragraphs seems to have just about disappeared except in books.
My pet hate is defaults that set spacing *below* headers wider than spacing above headers so that (to my mind) they attach themselves to the paragraphs above rather than the ones below that they belong to.
Now, having put off a necessary going-out as long as I could, I'm off (Oh b****r, I have to put a linespace above this one).
Ted.
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