Topic on Talk:Design/Typography

Is there any consideration of indenting first lines of paragraphs, like in books?

Some Wikipedias use it already, for example Thai and Ossetic.

This post was posted by Siebrand, but signed as Amire80.

FYI, a user asked the same thing on Portuguese Wikipedia: w:pt:WP:Esplanada/propostas/recuo de parágrafo (8set2013).

Indentation is good for running text in print, or other high-resolution environments.

But line breaks between paragraphs might still be the better choice in the low-res environment that most readers have in their computers, and it may be the best for the cluttered layout that many encyclopedia articles have, with their illustrations, navboxes, etc.

Hi Amir, The first line of the article carries a paragraph space or a line break.

I think this works well because the disambiguation templates, that occur in a lot of articles before the first paragraph already carry an indent, so adding another indent to the first line right below it may not help differentiate it.

I was looking at some paragraph making styles and this one site does a good job of analayzing all the combinations of marking paragraphs - http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/contents/text/