Le 27 oct. 2013 à 17:17, Bill Kasdorf <bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com> a écrit :
> --I strongly disagree about omitting an indent on a paragraph at the top of a page. That can mistakenly signal to a reader that it is NOT a new paragraph. That is typically done only when that paragraph follows a spacebreak (see next item).
This is largely an opinion issue... In our house style, we make sure that a paragraph ending at the bottom of a page (esp. of a right page) has a last line running short. This way, whatever the choice is for top-of-page paragraph starts, it is clear, before the user turns the page, that the paragraph ends there. After the turn, there is no ambiguity that a new paragraph is starting, and the reading is more comfortable if the top of the page does not start with an indent.
I still think there should be an option in CSS if a publisher wishes to implement this feature. Of course for this to work efficiently, there has to be quite a lot of logic in the layout system, to guarantee that the last line of the previous paragraph is not full.
Eric
PS some examples copy-pasted to illustrate (on spreads, it is even more relevant on an even-odd page sequence): no indent after line running short, indent after line running short, indent after nearly full line.
