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Old 08-09-2014, 02:30 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
There cannot be a single "best" value, the line spacing varies between fonts, depending on how they are designed. For some font a line spacing of 1 may cause ascenders and descenders to just touch, for a different font they may overlap with the same value, and for yet another font there may be a gap between them. Line spacing is a bit like font size.

And this is not a Kobo issue/feature, it's just the way fonts work.
Given that I don't use a wide variety of fonts for reading, that value is the one that works best for me. Just to be boring, I use 1em as the default size for body text though I've seen ebooks that use values from .72 to 1.33 for a body text default size. Again, the nice thing with epubs where you can personalize them.

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David
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