baldur
baldur

Hereโ€™s a possibly unpopular opinion: scrolling text with space between paragraphs has become the most readable form of text layout on the screen through convention and familiarity.

Those of us persisting with indents and pagination are prioritising tradition over readability

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pkra@mathstodon.xyz
pkra@mathstodon.xyz

@baldur even on Kindle now ๐Ÿ™„

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baldur
baldur

@pkra Personally, I think this only applies to scrolling text. If you're paginating, you should probably still be using first line indents. IMO.

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amit
amit

@baldur I believe it may not be an unpopular opinion. I guess majority of the people might do this. So much so that indented paragraphs look wrong for some reason :-)

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pkra@mathstodon.xyz
pkra@mathstodon.xyz

@baldur Right. I was too cryptic. I meant to refer to the fact that Kindle now has a scrolling view instead of pagination (where I think your comment applies?).

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baldur
baldur

@pkra Ah, yeah, of course. Indeed.

Although Kindle's scrolling view is pretty solidly broken as implemented because it doesn't show a scrollbar under any circumstances. So it isn't something I can use even though I'm a fan of scrolled reading.

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pkra@mathstodon.xyz
pkra@mathstodon.xyz

@baldur well of course. It's Kindle after all. ๐Ÿ˜œ

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pkra@mathstodon.xyz
pkra@mathstodon.xyz

@baldur I keep waiting for them to switch their hackery from phantomjs to puppeteer. It will change all the things...

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