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Old 09-13-2016, 12:06 AM   #441
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Well, I'm giving up trying to get the full screen view with KEPUBs fixed. However, when using EPUBs, that do work with the full screen view, features such as Time To Read, and chapter length previews and such stop working. There is no way to see where you are in the book, except when calling up the menu and then looking at the table of contents tab.

Normal EPUB view is not an option: it wastes 2cm of space on the bottom of the screen to show you the page number and the page looks highly unbalanced.

edit... what the hell... I'm paging through a few EPUBs, and sometimes, half the screen is just blank. Is that *STILL* the age-old bug that needs "body {orphans: 0; widows: 0}" set in the EPUB? Damn. I can't believe that. A screen as big as the size of a desert, and you have to *still* go through hoops and loads of undocumented stuff to get it to be used.

Now it comes down to:
- Use KEPUBs in normal mode, with header and footer, but with reading progress
- Use EPUBs in full screen mode, hoping the orphan/widow CSS fixes the blank bottom of the page bug so you can use the entire screen but losing reading progress functions
- Use KEPUBs in full screen mode and live with cut-off fonts.

edit: an orphans/widows addition completely destroys the rendering of the EPUBs I've tested. At this point, the best balance between screen usage, a balanced page, and functionality is to use KEPUB in the normal (header+footer) rendering mode. Any other mode has very annoying problems. EPUB is usable in full screen mode, but each page has a random blank part on the bottom, of 0 lines to half a screen. In normal mode, 2cm of the bottom of the screen is used for showing the page number, which costs you like 4-5 lines text.

I think Kobo should really get their act together with regard to rendering files and offer an official option to turn headers and footers off.
If changing the orphans and widows broke the rendering of the epub, then you made a mistake. Odds are you broke the stylesheet. If there is an error in the stylesheet, then the epub renderer will completely ignore the stylesheet. Which means the epubs will revert to defaults for all styles.

As to whether Kobo should be respecting the styles in the book and using the published defaults where the styles and attributes are not specified in the book, I'll leave for an argument elsewhere.

But, I would suggest using 1 for the the widows and orphans. The CSS specs do not allow 0, so it is unpredictable what will happen.
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