Well, I’m still working on Part 1 of the large-print layout. I decided that not having the bottoms aligned was driving me crazy, especially because it was happening when there was no real reason for it to happen—i.e. in situations other than, That’s the way this particular letter fell. The issue (and I have a vague recollection of this being a problem in my earlier books as well) is that the APH guidelines set you up so that if you don’t have the exact same number of hard returns on each side of the page, the text blocks won’t line up. So I fixed that by putting less space between paragraphs—which, if memory serves, is why all my books are mostly APH compliant rather than entirely APH compliant.
Because you don’t indent the first line of paragraphs in APH, you automatically put line space between paragraphs. So the places where I had inserted line spaces between paragraphs in the trade paperback now look like this:
Which is completely ridiculous. So I fixed that…I think to my satisfaction, although I’ll give it another look tomorrow. I’m leaving a lot of line spacing in some situations, just because I think it gets confusing not to. This is just a tricky book to lay out, because you have the letters and you have my commentary, and it’s important that readers are able to tell the letters apart both from each other and from the commentary.