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Does anyone know why a book I bought with a stylesheet that says 5% is slightly less indented than an ebook I reformatted to have 5%? Shouldn't they be the exact same?
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Maybe the body has a margin, padding, or something? Or the paragraphs do? Use the inspector thing in the editor to look at the numbers for the boxes.
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When converting to KFX (Enhanced Typesetting) Amazon "fixes" text-indent expressed as a percentage. A value set by the publisher of 5% will be changed to 1.6em in KFX. That may be a factor in what you are seeing.
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Forget the nook to read ePub. You can read ePub on your Kobo with the better typesetting. I mostly read ePub because it looks better. And as to being slow to turn the page, ePub is not too slow to turn the page.
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So I might as well just find the em value I prefer and call it a day? Is that "fixing" reflected in the final stylesheet? The book I bought from Tor Publishing directly as a KFX in the Kindle Store (though downloaded as an AZW3 to open in Calibre) says 5% in Calibre's CSS editor without any changes made to it, and that's what I'm using as a reference standard. Is that 5% there not actually 5%, or is it the other book I modified myself and then converted to KFX?
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Okay, I've attached two sets of images. One from a em set paragraph indent and one from a % set paragraph indent. Notice how the % changes to match the viewport while the em set does not. I personally prefer the % and ragged right.
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In the above samples, the % is too big and looks awful.
What I've done is found an em value I like and set indents to that. Last edited by JSWolf; 01-24-2020 at 01:49 PM. |
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If you take a book coded in EPUB with an indent of 5% and convert it to KFX it will instead use 1.6em in that format. You can see this if you convert from KFX back to EPUB by using the KFX Input plugin for calibre. |
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I think you should try them all and see what works best for you.
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