Sounds like a good idea. I'll start doing that. I have been putting asterisks where there is a space between sections, though I've spaced 3 lines and put 3 asterisks in the middle, even assuming that the blanks are eliminated. Devorah, the discussion was about blank lines after headings, not between paragraphs. Like you, I've stopped putting them there and also stopped creating indented paragraphs if they aren't already there. How much more quickly the validating goes. smile G.Cindy --- On Mon, 5/19/08, Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At the beginning > of the book I put a note to readers between brackets saying > a blank line is represented by an asterisk. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.