Try as I may, I can not get my writing to convert to epub and have the paragraphs both indented and skip a line. I did some copy and pasting and I am sure that messed stuff up, but while two pages look identical in Scrivener, one will have spaces between the paragraph with no indent, and the other will have indent and no spacing.
If I start a new page for testing and just compile that page, I get the space but no indent.
|Any idea how to get both?
Set your default formatting in File >Options Editing > Formatting, then select and convert all Sections to this deÂfault by chosing Document >Convert text To Default Formatting.
Check your Indent setting in the Settings tab of the Compile Format Designer for the right indenting.
You may have to edit Styles in Scrivener or Sigil afterwards.
Hope this helps
Disclaimer to follow, but it is generally very easy to change body paragraph formatting for ePub:
- Double-click the “Ebook” compile format in the left sidebar of compile to edit it.
- Select the CSS pane, it should be pretty clear what to do at this point, but just in case:
3. Put your cursor into the Default Paragraph Formatting sample at the top.
4. As you can see it already has an indent, so use the line-height and spacing tool on the Format Bar, select “Other…”, and add 8tps or so of after-paragraph spacing.
Now for the disclaimer, I don’t know what you’re trying to do, but ordinarily it is better and more expected (from a reader standpoint) to see one or the other aesthetic school of paragraph separation, rather than both being mixed together. If you would prefer spacing, then I would suggest sliding the indent marker on the Ruler to the left and sticking with that, your readers won’t need any more of a signal to the eye than the space, that a new paragraph has started.
It’s convention, to be sure, but some of those are around for good reasons. 
Granted though, you probably will want a visual minor section break if that is the case, rather than the default empty line (either way). So head over to the Separators pane, and go through each of the entries in there, looking for “Empty Line” settings in the Between field. Change those to “Custom”, and put something like * * * into it.
Not a bad idea for ebooks anyway, in my opinion. Empty line breaks are very easily lost at the bottom of the screen and can make for confusing narrative transitions. It’s a problem we can avoid with print because we know when that happens and can fix it, but with ebooks text is all over the place depending on screen shape, font size, etc.
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