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Rand Brittain · 03-06-2023, 05:08 PM

I've noticed some issues with ePubs that display differently in KOReader than they do in Calibre or Sigil. I wanted to see what other people's experiences were to confirm where the difference arises before filing a bug report (if it is a bug), since my searches didn't turn anything in particular up.

It seems like a lot of ePubs render differently on my devices in KOReader than they do in desktop editing programs or other readers. In particular, it seems like KOReader defaults to indenting a paragraph if the stylesheet doesn't specifically call for "text-indent: 0" for that style, in places where Calibre defaults to no-indent.

Similarly, a lot of paragraphs or blocks seem to default to having no margin if a margin isn't specified, where other programs would default to a small one.

I don't think I have any tweaks set up in KOReader that would cause this behavior (although there are a lot of settings so I could very possibly be wrong). Is KOReader rendering the ePub incorrectly, or is Calibre? Which one is following the spec? Or is there just a default I need to change?

03-06-2023, 05:08 PM	#1
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 427 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	KOReader's Handling of Indents and Margins I've noticed some issues with ePubs that display differently in KOReader than they do in Calibre or Sigil. I wanted to see what other people's experiences were to confirm where the difference arises before filing a bug report (if it is a bug), since my searches didn't turn anything in particular up. It seems like a lot of ePubs render differently on my devices in KOReader than they do in desktop editing programs or other readers. In particular, it seems like KOReader defaults to indenting a paragraph if the stylesheet doesn't specifically call for "text-indent: 0" for that style, in places where Calibre defaults to no-indent. Similarly, a lot of paragraphs or blocks seem to default to having no margin if a margin isn't specified, where other programs would default to a small one. I don't think I have any tweaks set up in KOReader that would cause this behavior (although there are a lot of settings so I could very possibly be wrong). Is KOReader rendering the ePub incorrectly, or is Calibre? Which one is following the spec? Or is there just a default I need to change?