Daisy wrote:I'm not sure as we haven't had the opportunity to see another format. (At least I can't remember if it was ever different.)
Daisy, both styles are used in different situations. The determining factor is whether you are looking at a page containing just one chapter of a story or a page containing the whole story.
If you go, for instance, to Julie's "The Rook's Rock Mystery" or Rob's "Five Go off on a Narrowboat", you will see that these are so far appearing only as individual chapters. (Even though the latter is now complete, the full-story version of it doesn't seem to have appeared yet - I assume that's in the works.) You will see that there are no paragraph indentations, and there are empty lines separating all paragraphs. But if you go to one of the older stories - for example, Julie's "Exciting Time for the Secret Seven" - you will see that the individual chapters are still there, but that there is an option at the top for seeing the whole story on one page, and a link provided. If you go there, you will see that the traditional book format is used (indented paragraphs, no separating empty lines). Also, the typeface used is different.
All this is controlled by the style-sheets I mentioned before. It is not the case that there are two different versions of the actual story documents; the story text in both versions is the same, except for being split into chapters in one version and amalgamated into one long document for the other.
Another point in favour of the full-story version is that you get a blank screen containing just the story, whereas in the chapter-by-chapter version you still have all the surrounding links, frames, etc.
When I first looked into all this quite some time ago, I found that there are indeed two different style-sheets controlling these two styles, and anyone curious can see what they look like quite easily.
The style-sheet that indents paragraphs can be seen here:
http://enidblytonsociety.co.uk/download-styles.css
- and the one that doesn't can be seen here:
http://enidblytonsociety.co.uk/styles.css
The code for the two versions of the text, while containing exactly the same code relating to the text, contains different code at the top, and this contains references to one or other of the above style-sheets.
If anyone wants to display or print out stories with proper indenting of paragraphs, they can do so even while only individual chapters without indenting are so far displayed on the site, although it takes a minute or two of fiddling around - very easy when you know how, as I am about to tell you.
First, you make sure you have saved the first of these .css files along with the story documents, and ensure it is in the same subdirectory as the story. (When you save a page, if you save in "web page, complete" format, that will include the style-sheet that has been mentioned in the page, but not the other; if you save as "web page, HTML only", no style-sheet will be saved - just the file containing the story text.)
Now you have to open the web page file in a text editor such as NotePad, WordPad (Windows), TextEdit (Macintosh), or similar. (I'm sure there is a Linux text editor, too, but I don't know what any such are called.) Note: a *text editor* - NOT a word-processor unless it has a plain-text formatting option.
Now you go to the 7th line in the file (it may appear to be a bit more due to line-wrapping), where you will see amongst the code this: "styles.css". Just change "styles" there to "download-styles" - ignore the rest of the code. Make sure you keep the lower case of the letters and the immediately following full-stop before the "css".
Save the file with this change - and now the display of the story will change to the indented style.
(All the surrounding links and frames, etc. will still be there, although radically changed in style - essentially reduced to a column of text links, with no graphics effects. All that can be easily edited out too, but that is slightly more major surgery, and too involved to explain here.)
Regards, Michael.