Thread: Kobo Firmware 2.4.0
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Old 02-18-2013, 07:02 AM   #157
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Originally Posted by Mrs_Often View Post
What spec? As I interpret your post: there's something somewhere that says widows and orphans should be set to 2 or 3... and Kobo decided to respect that?
It is the CSS spec. See http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/page.html
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What I believe is: Kobo has set their widows and orphans to 2 or 3, and of course should respect their own settings.

However, I don't understand (disagree with) the setting in the first place. What exactly is the advantage of a paragraph starting on the next page so that the first or last 2 or 3 lines don't end up "alone" on the previous or next page respectively? Have you ever seen a novel do that?
I tend to think the same thing. But, I was reading a book that didn't have the paper book styling I like. It had gaps between paragraphs and no indent on paragraphs. What I found was that for shorter paragraphs, the separation seemed to help comprehension. I could take in the whole paragraph in one go. With that, the widows/orphans settings might make sense. But, not enough to change my preferred styling.
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If you find yourself restlessly wanting to investigate this the two books that I sent you in the testing-battery thread were originally not split. I think they contained about 7 chapters per file. I did let Calibre split them for me so if what you say is correct those books should have those nothingness lines as well. (Actually, I'm beginning to doubt whether I did actually send you the converted versions... I might have given you the un-converted for extra badness... hmm)
Yep, you gave me the unconverted versions. Or, maybe I should say the unsplit versions. Did a quick test, and the split worked properly. There is a div which is used by the in-line TOC, but it was kept with the chapter heading.

I had a hunt through other books I had, and found something like what David reported. These had been converted from MOBI files. The "mbppagebreak" div was at the end of each chapter. It didn't have the extra empty paragraphs, but that is probably in that particular book, though I have seen some just like it.

Got it half right
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