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> Article recommends indentation on first line of a new paragraph,

No, it doesn't, generally.

It notes spaced paragraphs are the norm on the web while indentation is common in print, explains how to do indented paragraphs properly on the web, and then recommends indentation for certain content, specifically “for texts that aren’t broken down into different sections, divided by titles or a lot of images.”

> but as far as I can tell, they use double (or at least extended) vertical spacing as paragraph seperation

And the article is divided by both titles every few paragraphs and frequent images, so it doesn’t fall into the class of content for which it recommends indentation of paragraphs.




My reading was that two following paragraphs are supposed to be indented and paragraphs following headings and breaking images should be spaced.

Guess I was too quick on the trigger there.




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