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Originally Posted by pdurrant
TSo what to use instead? We use the text-indent. We can specify this in whole multiples of em. To have a paragraph indented by two em with a 1em text indent, we specify a text-indent of -2em, and then add 12 non-breaking spaces to the start of the paragraph.
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Ah, I’ve found a problem. It was mentioned elsewhere, but having double-checked I can confirm that when using the em unit in specifying the text-indent, the indent used is independent on Kindle from the font size of the paragraph.
The em-unit /does/ scale depending on the base font size chosen in the Kindle user interface. I now need to check whether that's also the case when it's specified in points or pixels - does the indent get bigger if a bigger base font is chosen? I suspect not, but I have to check.
This does introduce some problems for the paragraph left indent procedure so far suggested - it only really works for text at the base font size.
Sigh... This is really rather complex, and no proper specifications from Amazon.