KOreader's settings help

[Owl_]

Hi everyone!
I want to read with a mono font and the text shown as on a grid, so each character is in a column
I'm desperately trying to get the settings do it. The word spacing values are limited, so the characters doesn't allign. What can I do? Can I write something in the book specific tweaks? Must I convert all my books in txt ? Please help

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Owl_

Hi everyone!
I want to read with a mono font and the text shown as on a grid, so each character is in a column
I'm desperately trying to get the settings do it. The word spacing values are limited, so the characters doesn't allign. What can I do? Can I write something in the book specific tweaks? Must I convert all my books in txt ? Please help

You can use a mono font, but as far as putting them in a grid, that won't work. The best you can do is use left align. Other then that that's it.

[Owl_]

Of course I am using a monospace font.
It seems with epubs you can only get close to a grid/terminal display. The only solution seems convert the books in txt.


Or maybe the developers can create a new KOreader option that force the text to be shown in columns and lines???

[Owl_]

I post here the the content of the metadata .lua file for anyone who wants to try this mode or likes it. It's the closest result I got to a perfect grid.
I put in green the Book-specific style tweak.
I attached two screenshots of a page with the abovementioned settings in an epub and a txt. Though the txt gives you a perfect grid, using it you'll lose the epub's advantages


-- /storage/emulated/0/Joe's_Library/Brandon Sanderson/Cosmere universe/3 Cosmere standalones/Warbreaker (Brandon Sanderson) (Z-Library).sdr/metadata.epub.lua
return {
["annotations"] = {
[1] = {
["chapter"] = "Chapter One",
["datetime"] = "2026-03-27 16:18:27",
["page"] = "/body/DocFragment[8]/body/p[106]/em[1]/text().0",
["pageno"] = 43,
["text"] = "in Chapter One",
},
[2] = {
["chapter"] = "Chapter Five",
["datetime"] = "2026-03-27 19:10:59",
["page"] = "/body/DocFragment[12]/body/p[98]/text().281",
["pageno"] = 103,
["text"] = "in Chapter Five",
},
[3] = {
["chapter"] = "Chapter Six",
["datetime"] = "2026-03-27 21:12:14",
["page"] = "/body/DocFragment[13]/body/p[121]/text().0",
["pageno"] = 129,
["text"] = "in Chapter Six",
},
[4] = {
["chapter"] = "Chapter Seven",
["datetime"] = "2026-03-28 08:39:24",
["page"] = "/body/DocFragment[14]/body/p[35]/text().0",
["pageno"] = 136,
["text"] = "in Chapter Seven",
},
},
["book_style_tweak"] = "* {white-space: pre-wrap !important;\
white-space: pre !important;\
word-spacing: 0 !important;\
letter-spacing: 0 !important;\
text-align: left !important;\
text-justify: none !important;}\
p, div {margin: 0 !important;\
padding: 0 !important;}",
["book_style_tweak_enabled"] = true,
["book_style_tweak_last_edit_pos"] = {
[1] = 1,
[2] = 192,
},
["cache_file_path"] = "/storage/emulated/0/koreader/cache/cr3cache/Warbreaker_B-ibrary_.epub.7e16139a.1.cr3",
["config_panel_index"] = 5,
["copt_b_page_margin"] = 5,
["copt_block_rendering_mode"] = 3,
["copt_cjk_width_scaling"] = 100,
["copt_embedded_css"] = 0,
["copt_embedded_fonts"] = 1,
["copt_font_base_weight"] = 0.5,
["copt_font_gamma"] = 15,
["copt_font_hinting"] = 0,
["copt_font_kerning"] = 0,
["copt_font_size"] = 26,
["copt_h_page_margins"] = {
[1] = 4,
[2] = 4,
},
["copt_line_spacing"] = 80,
["copt_nightmode_images"] = 1,
["copt_render_dpi"] = 300,
["copt_rotation_mode"] = 0,
["copt_smooth_scaling"] = 1,
["copt_status_line"] = 1,
["copt_sync_t_b_page_margins"] = 0,
["copt_t_page_margin"] = 5,
["copt_view_mode"] = 0,
["copt_visible_pages"] = 1,
["copt_word_expansion"] = 0,
["copt_word_spacing"] = {
[1] = 100,
[2] = 0,
},
["cre_dom_version"] = 20240114,
["css"] = "",
["doc_pages"] = 1433,
["doc_path"] = "/storage/emulated/0/Joe's_Library/Brandon Sanderson/Cosmere universe/3 Cosmere standalones/Warbreaker (Brandon Sanderson) (Z-Library).epub",
["doc_props"] = {
["authors"] = "Brandon Sanderson",
["description"] = "<p><i>Warbreaker</i> is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who's still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago.</p><p>Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as <i>breath</i> that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.</p><p>By using <i>breath</i> and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.</p><p><b>Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson</b></p><p><b>The Cosmere</b></p><p><b>The Stormlight...",
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["keywords"] = "Epic Fantasy",
["language"] = "en-US",
["title"] = "Warbreaker",
},
["floating_punctuation"] = 0,
["font_face"] = "a77_Century_Schoolbook_Mono",
["font_family_fonts"] = {},
["handmade_flows_edit_enabled"] = true,
["handmade_flows_enabled"] = false,
["handmade_toc_edit_enabled"] = true,
["handmade_toc_enabled"] = false,
["hide_nonlinear_flows"] = false,
["highlight_color"] = "gray",
["highlight_drawer"] = "lighten",
["hyph_force_algorithmic"] = false,
["hyph_soft_hyphens_only"] = false,
["hyph_trust_soft_hyphens"] = false,
["hyphenation"] = true,
["inverse_reading_order"] = false,
["invert_ui_layout"] = false,
["last_xpointer"] = "/body/DocFragment[14]/body/p[35]/text().0",
["page_overlap_style"] = "dim",
["partial_md5_checksum"] = "103e4b5eb037306aa1df2fbd3dc827a6",
["partial_rerendering"] = true,
["percent_finished"] = 0.094905792044662,
["readermenu_tab_index"] = 2,
["show_overlap_enable"] = false,
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["highlights"] = 0,
["language"] = "en-US",
["notes"] = 0,
["pages"] = 1433,
["performance_in_pages"] = {},
["series"] = "N/A",
["title"] = "Warbreaker",
},
["summary"] = {
["modified"] = "2026-03-28",
["status"] = "reading",
},
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}