If you have carefully read the statements about indentation, you should be dissatisfied now with the current state of our sample document. It not only shows paragraph indents, but also unnecessary empty lines after each paragraph. Perhaps your book text has been imported the same way. These empty lines are not really necessary between paragraphs unless a new content section is to follow without the use of a subchapter headline. Examples are: citations, lists, changes of time or place in a story, etc.
Of course you can start to comb through the whole document, eliminating empty lines manually in the text edit mode. (Eventually, when iCalamus is able to search and replace line ends, this operation will be easier.)
Here is another smart method of removing unnecessary empty lines.
Double-click on the ruler Body text, indent
in the
Text Ruler inspector
.
Enter a value of –10.99 pt
in the field Paragraph
spacing before
. The distances between indented paragraphs are
then, in effect, wiped off. (–11 pt doesn't work, because text
in the previous line could no longer flow. Text lines in the same text
frame could not overlap with this trick
until now.)
