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Originally Posted by JSWolf
We are going backwards here. We have Kindles with 1.2 and Kobos with 1.3. Both which are too large. The Kobo can be fixed via CSS and the only way Kindles can be fixed is to edit the metrics of the font so it has a smaller line height. I've done that for the Kindle (for KF8) using Charis SIL and it worked very well.
It's disgraceful when a Reader and/or app has defaults that cannot easily be overridden and those defaults are obnoxious.
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Indeed. Lots of things the Kindle KF8 readers do are obnoxious. That particular one, though, is so badly done that fonts whose metrics specify a smaller-than-1.2 line height actually get forced up to a 1.2 line height, resulting in the layout of the content changing. To get a line height less than 1.2, AFAIK, the only thing you can really do is lie in your metrics and extend the ascenders and descenders past the specified limits.
So yes, no disagreement here. What Amazon has done with KF8 is broken. Badly. Embarrassingly.