Kobo ereaders nearly perfect or extremely buggy?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by cybmole

being upable to select teh font FAMILY is a much more common annoyance.

even a generic line like font=family:serif; is enough to "fix" fhe family and disable font selection on device a far as Kobo reader is concerned.

Line spacing controls ARE disabled by relative sizes like 1.2em; AND by non specified unit statement like line-height: 1.2;

so the line spacer controls are useless unless ALL line height CSS is manually removed.

If you look at Kinldes devices, their font / line controls just work.

Original discussion was about font-size not changing. Yes, I know that line height uses the CSS value which is lets me select the line height for my personal preferences on ebooks for my use. For ebooks for others, I simply remove all the line height items along with some other personal preferences. Similarly, I only use embedded fonts and/or font definitions that are necessary for the book display which generally means a monospaced font for displaying computer I/O. Nothing like an upper case monospaced piece of text to make me nostagic for the TTY-33.

Kindles are a different critter since the formats are proprietary and controlled by Amazon. It's quite possible that they allow overriding even fixed size text and line heights as do some non-standard compliant epub readers.

Regards,
David

[joblack]

The Kobo Reader still can't zoom pictures in normal epubs. The device sucks and it was a waste of money.

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by cybmole

being upable to select teh font FAMILY is a much more common annoyance.

even a generic line like font=family:serif; is enough to "fix" fhe family and disable font selection on device a far as Kobo reader is concerned.

Line spacing controls ARE disabled by relative sizes like 1.2em; AND by non specified unit statement like line-height: 1.2;

so the line spacer controls are useless unless ALL line height CSS is manually removed.

If you look at Kinldes devices, their font / line controls just work.

This may explain why the line spacing also looked odd on the Kobo Glo. No matter what I did the line spacing had too much space above and below the text, however my 1.2em line spacing on the Sony looks fine.

I'm thinking it may be time to remove line spacing all together from my css...I'm not sure what purpose it serves.