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Old 06-15-2016, 12:45 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by rashkae View Post
the drop cap placement is because Kindle does not allow Line Height of less than 1.2em, (or 120%.).

There are several older epubs that used Line Height of less than 1 as part of their css. it looks fine on a standard compliant viewer, such as most epub readers, but the Kindle will muss it up.
Even better, IIRC, Kindle's interpretation of font height often differs from the norm thanks to what I think are bugs in WebKit-GTK, resulting in situations where—only with some fonts—a line height of 1.2 actually gets further expanded slightly on some devices and not on others....
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