Thread: Paragraph indent problem
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Old 12-29-2018, 05:33 AM   #35
davidfor
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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader View Post
Found what was messing up the paragraph indent ONLY on Kobo. Fine on other devices or apps. Summary of problem:
If the start of paragraph indent isn't in "em" then the size of if is half the expected on the Kobo H2O original on ePubs sent from Calibre. 1em = 12pt, to get 16pt the indent had to be 1.4em via "remove blank paragraphs and set indent", or manual edit of CSS. Setting it to 32pt gave correct view on Kobo, but then twice what it should be on anything else.
It may have been only the setting to use a file kobo_extra.css, which doesn't exist on my Kobo. See below.

On Device (when Kobo H2O original connected) I made two changes:
1) On "Extended" I unchecked "Enable Kobo Extended Features" presuming that this is what is silently converting ePubs to keypubs on the fly.
Yes, that is what that option is. The other "Extended" options are related. But, if you don't want kepubs, why did you install the extended driver? "Silently" transforming epubs to kepubs during the send is it's reason for existence.
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2) On "Collections, covers & uploads" I unchecked "Modify CSS", as why would I do this? The CSS works fine on three non-Kobo ePub readers and two ePub apps on phone & tablet.
Because no two ereaders or apps from different manufacturer/developers interpret the epub standards in exactly the same way and this allows people to tweak things. It also allows people who share a library to tweak what they see. Or tweak the results for different Kobo devices. And because people wanted an easy way to strip the @page out of the CSS.
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Hovering the mouse suggests this uses some file I think I don't have.
This option is off by default. If it is on, you turned it on. Maybe you do have the files it uses. But, if the "kobo_extra.css" file doesn't exist, it doesn't do anything.
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