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Old 08-01-2019, 10:35 PM   #4
jdunning
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
Those "improvements" are not always desirable.
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You can try to compensate for some of the changes made during KFX conversion, but that will be a trial and error process.
Thanks! Yeah, I spent some frustrating time today trying to work around some of these issues, but didn't get anywhere. What I've learned:
  • Putting margin-left: -1em on anything causes the KFX conversion in Calibre to fail with a generic error.
  • A negative text-index on <p>'s that aren't inside an <li> seems to get ignored and reset to 0 (or possibly only when they're combined with ::before content).
  • <ul>'s have some padding-left that I can't seem to get rid of. It's like there's a useragent stylesheet on the Kindle that overrides the book's style.
  • Monospaced paragraphs seem to render larger than they do in the .azw3 format.
  • There doesn't seem to be any way to create hanging indents with a custom bullet point.
  • Kindle Previewer is terrible software.

I'm not sure that getting proper dropcaps and the page-flip navigation is worth all that pain.
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