A quick question for those in the know. I'm trying to make text display as similarly as possible in epubs and kepubs. The files are pre-processed in Calibre to eliminate potentially problematic margins, paragraph spacing, etc, yet I'm still seeing differences in epub/kepub with identical font settings and pages full of clean, plain text.
In reading through the patches, I found this warning, which seems to describe what I'm seeing:
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Beware that the KePub reader has problems with its page break position when narrow line spacings are selected, depending on which font is used. You can increase the replace_float values at the bottom of each patch to avoid those problems, or else simply refrain from selecting narrowest line spacings when reading KePubs.
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I do use very low line height, and the top line is often "fringed" in kepubs, with what seems to be a large empty space at the bottom, fit for at least another line of text. Even in larger values, when the edge fringing is gone, the bottom space often remains, and this seems to be the same regardless of the fonts used?
In the absence of the 24-line patch, I have modified the 10 spacing values patch to reflect the range that I'm used to, but the kepub reader seems to dislike pretty much anything below 0.9? Is there a known minimum line height that the kepub reader can handle? In previous versions I used the adjustable margins patch and that seemed to work like a charm. Now I'm using epub fixed top/bottom margins with kepub default margins to try and even out the text rendering, which seems to be giving me these results.
Am I missing something, or is that just the way it is?