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Originally Posted by Calenorn
I don't know. Think about the many ways people read ebooks. Readers, phones, PC screens. Is there really any hope that the original file crafter can manage to make the book display 'correctly' in every application? Not to mention future innovations.
No, to me a book that insists on denying me control over how it looks on my device is 'badly-crafted' by definition.
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I might not have been quite clear: by honouring the line-height used by the publisher, well-crafted ebooks will BOTH display correctly AND allow you to adjust the line spacing. If the firmware was changed to disregard the publisher's use of line-height, some well-crafted books would no longer display correctly, although the line spacing would remain adjustable.
To give a simple example: The publisher might need to use the line-height style to make the opening line of a paragraph with a raise-cap use the same line spacing as the rest of the lines in the paragraph, i.e. to make it display at the spacing YOU THE READER selected. If the firmware was changed so it did not honour the publisher's use of line-height then the line would display at a DIFFERENT spacing than you the reader selected.