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The book publishing industry still embraces the traditional paragraph in manuscripts submitted for publication, as described in CMOS 2.12.

So what about typed book manuscripts? What do agents and editors want to see from writers who submit their work? Rita Indiana, Papi, translated by Achy Obejas (University of Chicago Press, 2016). You know from your reading, however, that published books-not just printed books but e-books too-still overwhelmingly use traditional indentation with no extra space between paragraphs.Ī printed book page featuring traditional paragraphing. Web designers seem to agree that on a computer screen, text is friendlier when there’s some space between paragraphs and all the lines begin flush left, as in this post. These days, it’s unusual to see content online that has been formatted into traditional paragraphs. Eventually, the pilcrow disappeared altogether from the printed page. With the invention of movable type, printers introduced the practice of starting each new paragraph on a new line and indenting that line from the left margin, no doubt with the idea of making the text easier to read. At some point breaks in thought or theme came to be indicated in the line of text with marks of various kinds, which in late medieval times included a pilcrow (¶), essentially the same symbol your word processor hides at the end of a paragraph in your documents today. In manuscripts of yore (centuries ago), the text would appear in one huge unbroken block.