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Originally Posted by foosion
My default font and line height results in 15 lines of text on my Libra 2. However, if there's a footnote which would otherwise display at the top of the next page, I get 16 lines of text with the footnote on the bottom line. Is this some widow and orphan manifestation or is it something else?
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Since you mentioning kepub, widows and orphans are not an issue. Minimal changes in spacing on the page can change the number of lines that are visible.
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Originally Posted by foosion
I've come to dislike large first letters of a chapter, often bold and extending above or below the line, so they need a special margin (such as 0.7em) to display nicely. Accordingly, I've been changing these to regular text. Anyone else?
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Dropcaps are a relic of the past and should remain there.
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Originally Posted by foosion
Why do almost all books not indent the first paragraph of a chapter, but then indent all subsequent paragraphs? I toy with indenting all paragraphs.
Somewhere in the 1.4em range seems best for indenting, although maybe 5%?
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First paragraph flush, subsequent paragraphs indented OR all paragraphs flush and a space between them are the old rules of thumb. Personally, I prefer first paragraphs in a chapter or after a scene break to be flush. All others get a 1.5em indent.
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Originally Posted by foosion
Is there some way to automate making sure all actual text (body, rather than headings or special sections) is normal size?
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No automated method. I remove font-sizes in the CSS that are not related to headings, copyright or other special sections. This allows an 1 em font size to apply unless overridden.
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Originally Posted by foosion
The current book I'm reading doesn't have the footnote preview feature (clicking on a footnote brings you to the footnote) and image viewer. How can I fix this?
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A correctly formatted footnote in a kepub will do the popup footnote. There are many ways of not correctly formatting a footnote. If you take a look through MobileRead, (a search from Google for 'kobo footnotes site:mobileread.com' will find quite a few examples. You can also check
Footnotes/Endnotes Are Fully Supported Across Kobo Platforms on Kobolab's Kobo EPUB Guidelines Github page.
As for the double tap to bring up the image viewer? Not seeing that suggests that you are reading an epub not a kepub.