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Originally Posted by Tango Mike
I'm relatively new to Calibre and formatting my novel as an ebook, and have both mobi and epub files looking very good, but...
First, with no control over how a reader will choose to view the book, I can't prevent situations in which a few words or lines of text at the end of a chapter appear at the top of the last page, leaving mostly blank space before the beginning of the next chapter. That seems to be something I have to accept if I want to use page breaks between chapters.
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I am not a Word user (or expert):
The keywords are "Widows" and "Orphans" that control that.
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But if I were to eliminate the page breaks and use only the style function in Word to add space above and below my chapter headings, readers would still get a visual differentiation for chapter ends and starts, and I'd avoid the possibility of mostly empty last pages of chapters.
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I use Sigil to edit the EPUB.
I tend to work in the stylesheet and just set a bigger Top padding for a chapter heading class. I also prefer to use % (of screen) values to maintain 'balance' on different size displays.
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I don't know how common that is, and I'd like to hear what you think of that as a tactic for altering the appearance of the novel on the e-reader.
I'd appreciate any comments on these two issues. Thanks in advance for your time.
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