Avoid Jumping between chapters

xashyar · 05-07-2021, 12:28 PM

Even though "Flow mode" is supposed to prevent the screen jumps, when it comes to end of the chapters, the last paragraphs can't be brought to the center which makes reading them pretty inconvenient.

kovidgoyal · 05-07-2021, 12:51 PM

That's just how flow mode works, you can at best merge the html files internally to avoid this problem.

xashyar · 05-09-2021, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

That's just how flow mode works, you can at best merge the html files internally to avoid this problem.

Can't the Flow mode be expanded to handle end chapters as well?

There are other epub readers, iBooks for example which do this pretty well, so it doesn't seem to be inherent to epub file format.

kovidgoyal · 05-09-2021, 02:28 AM

It is an inherent limitation. The EPUB file is internally broken up into individual html files which are rendered one at a time. There is no way around that, short of either butchering the files to merge them into one or rendering multiple files simultaneously which is an absolute bear in terms of performance, code complexity and robustness. I am guessing iBooks does one of those. I am not going to.

05-07-2021, 12:28 PM	#1
xashyar Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2021 Device: None	Avoid Jumping between chapters Even though "Flow mode" is supposed to prevent the screen jumps, when it comes to end of the chapters, the last paragraphs can't be brought to the center which makes reading them pretty inconvenient. Last edited by xashyar; 05-07-2021 at 12:30 PM.

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05-07-2021, 12:51 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,843 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	That's just how flow mode works, you can at best merge the html files internally to avoid this problem.

05-09-2021, 02:28 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,843 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	It is an inherent limitation. The EPUB file is internally broken up into individual html files which are rendered one at a time. There is no way around that, short of either butchering the files to merge them into one or rendering multiple files simultaneously which is an absolute bear in terms of performance, code complexity and robustness. I am guessing iBooks does one of those. I am not going to.