Glo Minimum line spacing unadjustable, fix?

[cybmole]

i do the removes in sigl. put each of those into find box and put nothign into replace box. then replace all on current files while css stylesheet is open.

but there are many variants on the font family think - that one was just an example.
eg a book may have
font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
I do not have an expression that removes all, though I think you can maybe tick a box in calibre extra CSS options to remove ALL font families
preferences common options filters

[Calenorn]

Originally Posted by davidfor

The fact you care about this makes you unusual.

Then I'm unusual too! There may be a lot of 'unusual' people visiting these boards!

I think the lesson here is that every e-reader's firmware will react differently with an epub book's cascading style sheet.

My NOOK Simple Touch, for example, will make a small paragraph indent for anything marked with <p>. I can define text-indent=0 in the <p> section of the css, and NOOK ignores that completely. Stubborn bugger!

If I want to read without indented paragraphs on my NOOK (don't ask me why) then I have to change all the <p> marks in the text to something else, like <standard>, then add a section for <standard> in the css.

It's all a bit of a hassle, yes. But it doesn't take very long to make those changes (with a little practice).

Morale of the story: get to know your particular e-reader's quirks and limitations. You can probably learn how to make it do what you want.

[Rizla]

Presumably you tried different fonts? Some fonts on the Kobo (Nickel, I think) enforce unchangeable and very large line-spacing. Caecilia works okay.

[leftright]

Originally Posted by Rizla

Presumably you tried different fonts? Some fonts on the Kobo (Nickel, I think) enforce unchangeable and very large line-spacing. Caecilia works okay.

I did try different fonts in order to decide upon a single standard font for all my books and that's where I picked up on this line height issue. I'm just amazed at the gymnastics that the Glo goes through when opening different books and playing with the font and Line settings, it confuses the heck out of the poor thing.
What I expect from a UI is; change a setting give feedback, visual or audible, that the setting has been initiated AND executed, just give the user a darn clue that the slider is doing as requested when it's moved, Currently the visual feedback is to refresh/flash the page, great, its just a pity that it does so even when the slider has no effect on actual setting.

Anyway, I've converted all my epubs to the same font and added Line-Height to the CSS filter field, all UI settings now work as advertised. and there's no need to fiddle with settings which might confuse the poor thing.