Interesting information here. It gives me some pointers as to what's going on and what to expect, but it's beyond my knowledge. Without having to modify CSS files in my books, I'm looking at what the Quality Check plugin in Calibre is reporting and wondering about the results if I use the Modify ePub plugin.
What I'm seeing if I do the following in Quality Check:
Check ePub Style > Check CSS Book Margins
is that every book in my library gives:
"Margins are defined in pts but don't match calibre preferences"
Currently, in Calibre, my Default Profile margins at Preferences > Conversion > Common Options > Page Setup > Input Profile are set to 5.0 pt all around
If I use Quality Check's "Check Inline @page Margins," it says none of my books have this.
Looking at the comments here, I'm pretty sure nothing bad will happen if I use the Modify ePub "HTML & Styles" > "Modify @page and body margin styles:"
Quote:
An ePub that has not been converted by yourself in calibre may have body or @page styles with margins set to values that differ from your desired defaults. You can set your calibre conversion defaults using Preferences -> Conversion -> Common Options -> Page Setup. If you set negative values then this option will remove the margin attributes from the ePub , and if a CSS file is now empty then it will be removed from the ePub completely. Otherwise it will write whatever default value you have specified into a new @page style in each CSS file. Note it does not currently support changing named body styles.
Use this option to remove @page and body margin values and if your calibre defaults are non-negative then rewrite into an @page style.
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to set all my books' margins to my current Calibre default. It also looks like all will be fine if I change that default to 0 all around and do the same. Though I wonder if the text gets smashed against the edge of the screen with 0 margins or does the Forma automatically put some kind of spacing in there?
Does anyone know if using negative Calibre defaults along with that Modify ePub option to "remove the margin attributes from the ePub" entirely by "remove[ing] @page and body margin values" will be a good thing or a bad thing?