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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?
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?
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%?
Is there some way to automate making sure all actual text (body, rather than headings or special sections) is normal size?
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?
All of this relates to kepub files on my Libra 2 (or Clara BW).
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I get 46 lines of text on the screen of my Libra 2. You must be using some large font size and some rather large line height. 30 lines would be more normal.
Anyway, if you install
Diaps Editing Toolbag then in the editor you'll easily be able to remove the spans that give you the large first letter that you don't like. As to the first paragraph not being indented, that's normal. Not just in eBooks, but in pBooks as well. It shows you that you are at the beginning of the paragraph or section. To me, it looks cheap and tacky when those paragraphs are indented. My preferred indent is 1.2em.
As for Widows/orphans, you can override them in multiple ways.
In CSS, in Kobo ereader.conf with
Code:
[Reading]
readingAdobeOrphans=1
readingAdobeWidows=1
but this is only for ePub, and you can apply the patch that gets rid of widows/orphans that works for both ePub and KePub.
Footnotes don't popup with ePub, only KePub. Footnotes should be in a separate HTML file with page breaks in between each footnote.