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THREE TIMES A CHARM!

Blog City Prompt: Have you ever had a "Goldilocks" experience? It took you three tries to get it just right?

Three times would be a miracle! I lost count how many times I tried the formatting on my book in preparation for EPUB publishing.

The paragraph space above and below has to be exact or the lines are too close together. And there cannot be any hard returns. They require one manual page break before each chapter so the system recognizes the chapter for the index. There are no pages in an eBook, just one 450 page-long file. Quite a trick to get it perfect!

Then the printed book preparation is totally different and there you have right and left pages. Chapters must begin on the right side. After more than three times I learned that each chapter should be poured in separately with a manual page break at the end. This isolates it from any changes. Otherwise a single change can push all the chapters down a page and mess up the whole arrangement of right and left.

And then paperbacks are usually  tight, single lines with just a space (maybe) after a paragraph. The paragraph indent is  usually the only way to see paragraph. So much for the easy to read line spaces we love for editing and reviewing. I found there are ways to bulk remove lines (hard returns) between paragraphs. To late for me, I manually deleted every return for my entire book. So you see, Goldilocks had it good!

Three times a charm...>>>iggy

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