Line spacing options?

[Uncle Robin]

Will the viewer ever have/be able to have the option to change line spacing? I switched from flowed to paged to see if line spacing options appeared, but it did not. I would love to be able to read at about 1.15 - 1.25 line spacing, without having to edit each book. If this feature is on the roadmap at all, that would make my day

[gbm]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

Will the viewer ever have/be able to have the option to change line spacing? I switched from flowed to paged to see if line spacing options appeared, but it did not. I would love to be able to read at about 1.15 - 1.25 line spacing, without having to edit each book. If this feature is on the roadmap at all, that would make my day

See:
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/vie...ing-experience

More advanced customization can be achieved by the Styles settings. Here you can specify a background image to display under the text and also a stylesheet you can set that will be applied to every book. Using it you can do things like change paragraph styles, text justification, etc. For examples of custom stylesheets used by calibre’s users, see the forums.

bernie

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by gbm

See:
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/vie...ing-experience

bernie

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

Will the viewer ever have/be able to have the option to change line spacing? I switched from flowed to paged to see if line spacing options appeared, but it did not. I would love to be able to read at about 1.15 - 1.25 line spacing, without having to edit each book. If this feature is on the roadmap at all, that would make my day

There isn't a pair of Tool buttons, like font-size has, but if you go to
Viewer Preferences > Styles
you can add something like
body {line-height:1.15}
plus anything else you fancy, to the CSS stylesheet box.

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

There isn't a pair of Tool buttons, like font-size has, but if you go to
Viewer Preferences > Styles
you can add something like
body {line-height:1.15}
plus anything else you fancy, to the CSS stylesheet box.

Thanks jackie_w, I will try that. I've posted in the linked styles thread that pasting an entire CSS template from that thread and changing the line-spacing value did exactly nothing. Perhaps just adding a line-height value will do the trick.

[gbm]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

Thanks jackie_w, I will try that. I've posted in the linked styles thread that pasting an entire CSS template from that thread and changing the line-spacing value did exactly nothing. Perhaps just adding a line-height value will do the trick.

For line-height you will need to add !important to the style.
(This is because many css selectors in ebooks have their own line height.)

body {line-height:1.15 !important}

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to...ortant-in-css/

The !important property in CSS is used to provide more weight (importance) than normal property. In CSS, the !important means that “this is important”, ignore all the subsequent rules, and apply !important rule and the !important keyword must be placed at the end of the line, immediately before the semicolon.

bernie

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by gbm

For line-height you will need to add !important to the style.
(This is because many css selectors in ebooks have their own line height.)

body {line-height:1.15 !important}

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to...ortant-in-css/


bernie

At least for the book I'm currently reading, I did not need "!important", adding "line-height" worked just fine, unlike the "line-spacing" in the linked thread. But I might add it to override for next time and beyond, thanks