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Old 03-26-2015, 11:41 AM   #614
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
Another reason for text missing at the end of a chapter is unbalanced tags. I discovered this while reading a book where a chapter finished with the lyrics of a song. The next chapter start logically from that (he'd won the girl over with the song and the next chapter was the next morning). But, a few pages in something was mentioned that happened after the song and before waking that was important. When I opened the book in the calibre viewer, there was a lot of action after the song.

Looking at the code for the song it was something like:

Code:
<blockquote>
<p><i>Line one of yet another love song</p>
<p>Line two of yet another love song</i></p>
</blockquote>
The calibre viewer handled this OK, but the firmware stopped at the end of the song.

I wouldn't expect code like this to be generated by a calibre conversion, but there might be a bug.
Yes, I really expect Kobo renderers not being really robust about bad code...

But there's a little BIG difference between a renderer failing with bad code (yes, it would be nice that the software were more robust but, in fact, I cannot blame Kobo if they don't do it) and a renderer failing with just unreferenced fonts (which is not bad code in any way; maybe in some systems those paths have full meanings as it's said in this thread in the Calibre > Editor subforum by jackie_w).

I do think Kobo has a serious bug here.

Nevertheless I've uploaded several pictures in that thread about jbennion's book.
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