Thread: indent size settings for Kindle
View Single Post
Old 01-08-2011, 02:29 AM   #2
kiwidude
Calibre Plugins Developer
kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 4,733
Karma: 2197770
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Australia
Device: Kindle Oasis
Quote:
Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
does anyone know what em values are valid for use on Kindle.

I have been trying the remove paragraph spacings + set indent options on look and feel, and seem to be getting larger than expected indents when viewed on Kindle ?

1 em is worth about 2 lower case letters , yes ?
so default value of 1.5 should approximate a three letter indent.
i see 4 letter indents so maybe kindle rounds up ?
Personally what I do is set a paragraph margin top and bottom of 0.2em - just enough to separate the paragraph but not so much you barely fit any text on a page . I set the text-align to justify, and the text-indent to 1em.

Finally I also modified the Kindle margins itself using the instructions here - I can't remember whether I set it to 10 or 20.
kiwidude is offline   Reply With Quote