So I would really apprechiate an account, I hope I have something intelligent to say to the articles of the next edition…

san benshu

If you want an account I’d be happy to create one for you…

By the way, since you linked to dasmagazin.ch I have read almost every article on the site. Its really a great magazine…

I am aware of both articles, and actually the indent does form more or less a square. Excellent article by Mr Boulton by the way.

We shouldn’t get overly exited about the indent. Indenting text is not some new invention. It’s a printing standard very useful for reading and not unnatural or even “destroying the harmony of a text”… The problems appear because of the short paragraphs, which are, as a matter of fact, unnatural and produce an ugly “Textbild” (text image).

Nevertheless I am happy to learn more about how you all perceive things…

We’ve progressed a lot over the past few days, but we still have a long list of issues to go through. Building this WYSIWYG is driving us nuts. There are problems on and on popping up with all the different kinds of wikipages, browsers platforms…

Why not follow the principles explained in

http://webtypography.net/RhythmandProportion/BlocksandParagraphs/2.3.2/

that is, describe a square with the indent:

p + p { text-indent: 1.5em; /* = line-height */ }

What I noticed is that articles are very long and it looks really dense as is, difficult to digest ’cause the flow of text just never stops. Don’t you think it’s bad for online reading? I would suggest to create a balance between indents (normal flow of texts) and another type of paragraph indication, say micro whitespace or ornaments, which have a higher visual impact and act as some sort of pause for the eye.

Mr Boulton gives interesting advices in http://www.alistapart.com/articles/whitespace/