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Originally Posted by haydnfan
Okay thanks I tried it but it doesn't look the same. See attached pic.
No header and large footer. Highly asymmetric. Yuck!
So it is all about these orphans and widows and not the footer. Well I just don't see it on kepub and since it is easier to buy and sync ebooks in that format, and what I said about epubs looking awful on my devices still stands.
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Yes, it isn't a problem with the
footer, it is how the book is rendered on the page.
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Thanks for showing me not to waste anymore time with epub, even if that wasn't your intent. I don't want to put alot of work in monkeying around with patching and editing css style files just to make it look as beautiful as kepub already does.
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Strangely enough the problem is that the epub renderer is fairly faithful to the epub specs. And those specs set the defaults widows and orphans to 2. That means the text is pushed to the next page in situations like this (there will be 2 or three lines of that paragraph on the next screen). This is one of the places where the specs are bad.
For kepubs, Kobo can do whatever they want. They own the format and whatever they decide is correct. In this case, they have decided to ignore any widows and orphans and just fill the page.
This is easy to fix by editing the CSS in the books. Or, if you use calibre, you can configure the driver to tweak the CSS during the send. But, if you like kepubs otherwise, then stick with that.