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Old 05-06-2013, 06:17 AM   #54
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
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.
As someone said earlier in this thread, 1.2 is pretty much a default or common setting for most fonts. For most people it will make the text more legible to be set to 1.2 rather than 1.0. The only time I'd consider using 1em for text is on titles or short bits of text (maybe links on websites). I think you're an edge case in preferring it for reading large quantities of text.


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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
It's disgraceful when a Reader and/or app has defaults that cannot easily be overridden and those defaults are obnoxious.
Definitely agree with this, I've just got myself a Kobo Mini and its driving me mad that I can't switch off the hyphenation without forcing it in the CSS.
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