Thread: Glo Minimum line spacing unadjustable, fix?
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Old 07-23-2015, 03:48 AM   #29
davidfor
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Originally Posted by leftright View Post
I'm merely suggesting that the eReader should give the user feedback when the sliders are used with no visible effect. I'm not suggesting a fundamental paradigm shift.
All my comments were in response to your comments about calibre, not what happens on the device. You stated that calibre was in the wrong because it didn't assist you here. But, if you want to discuss the device, how and when should it do this? What if there is only one class that won't adjust and it is used in only one place? Or only one class that can be adjusted? Should Kobo disable the slider in these cases? Or popup a warning that it couldn't so something? Personally, I'd put the decision in the to-hard basket and go and fix a bug in area that is more likely to affect others.

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I note your point, but I wouldn't be here if I didn't have the line height issues, which I've subsequently discovered can be rectified by adding a line command to the CSS remove thingy. Trust me it isn't obvious to click and play users like me of whom there are many I'm sure.
The fact you care about this makes you unusual. Most users I see don't ever make any adjustments. Or change it once and never again. Quite a few don't even know they can adjust the fonts until I show them. Kobo's, and Amazon's, market is not the likes of us (the denizens of this forum). They are much more interested in the masses who just pick up the device and read.

With all this, here's the strange thing: As far as I can tell, a Kobo ereader is the best at respecting the books design. Everything else seems to stuffs around with it more than a Kobo does. Or ignore parts (eg. line height). This means that if the books creator actually puts thought into the design, a Kobo is the most likely to display it the way they intended. The unfortunate consequence if this is that if the book creator doesn't know what they are doing, and especially if they rely to heavily on automated tools, bad things happen. And the over-use of line height in the CSS is one of these things. Or setting a font in places it shouldn't be set. The real thing here is to make sure the creators learn how to do this properly. And the book creation tool writers understand what they are doing. And is important to note that calibre is NOT a book creation tool.
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