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Old 03-11-2018, 07:45 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by PKFFW View Post
Sorry to revive this thread but I thought maybe someone who knows stuff about code could help out with this one.

I hope I'm not breaking any rules by posting a short bit of the Sigil code for reference, if I am, please report it to the mods and they can delete this post.

Firstly, just for clarity, this is about the second issue I raised in this thread, to recap, here's the issue in short.....
The issue occurs on both my wife's Sony PRS-T2 and my Kobo H2O
Whenever there is an "ornamental break" in the page it messes with how the pages display.
With this particular example posted below, here are the problems;
1: With font size set to minimum, when Chapter 43 ends and you turn the page it jumps to the ornamental break and doesn't even load up the start of Chapter 44.
2: If font size is set to any other level when turning the page from the end of Chapter 43 it will load up from the start of Chapter 44. However much text can fit on the page is displayed and then when you next change the page it jumps to the "ornamental break". Depending on the size of the font it may be missing anything from a line or two up to a paragraph or more.
3: There was an SVG file titled "vellum-created.svg" in the images directory. However, in an attempt to fix the problem I used Calibre to change it from the original epub to a new epub. Now there is no such file in the images.

ETA: The "ornamental break" appears to be a simple *** between one scene and the next.
What you are describing is exactly what I have seen which I attempted to describe above and I think DNSB has seen something similar. To prove that it is the same, try a long press in the area the text is missing. I found that the device would select a word and display the meaning. You might need to try a few places in case you manage to get a spot where there isn't a word. Closer to the left will be more likely to find something. And testing the book you posted before, that does happen.

I am pretty sure the problem is in how the styles interact, but have not been able to work it out. I have been meaning to extract a sample to post and ask the experts here (I'm an amateur when it comes to CSS). I have also had the same book on a tolino epos with the same problem. As tolino and Kobo and the Sony your wife has, use the Adobe RMSDK for ePubs, it suggests the problem is there. I'll see if I can make a short example that does this. If I can get it to one chapter, it should be easy to produce a sample that doesn't break copyright rules here.
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