I am new to Scrivener but not new to word processing or the Mobi format.
I was ecstatic to find out about Scrivener and in particular the Mobi export capability. Finally I wouldn’t have to spend hours building the HTML to use to generate a PRC file.
Anyway, began pulling in my novel from Apple Pages and after a few chapters in I decided to try some exporting.
I spent the rest of the day setting and resetting every instance of line spacing I could find – no matter what the line spacing is set to, the resulting Mobi file is single spaced or maybe 1.1.
I purchased Scrivener but won’t be able to use it if I cannot resolve this issue.
What formatting are your compile settings set up to use? Remember that one of the major features of Scrivener is that you can export using completely different formatting to that which you write in, via the “Formatting” pane of Compile. If “Override text and notes formatting” is turned on there, then the export will use the formatting set up in the blue preview area of that pane, so that is where you would need to modify the line spacing, not in the editor.
That is the issue - I’ve tried override at the export level, project level and the Gobal Preferences level. No matter what it is set at the output is fixed at 1.1 or maybe 1.2 (cannot tell)
At this point I’ve spent more than ten hours trying to create a Mobi file that has a line spacing of 1.5 but have failed.
I am on Mac using version 2.2 - is it possible this is a bug in the version I am using?
So as an example, selecting to override the Formatting on Export, I can set line space to 4 or even 8 and see it in the preview pane. On Compile however the result is still 1.1 or something like that.
As you can see, it doesn’t support line-height or other CSS that would adjust the line height, so the Kindle just doesn’t seem to support this. (.mobi files use HTML under-the-hood).
What do you mean by “proper” line spacing? Could you post a screenshot of how your text is looking in Kindle Previewer.app? I have a number of Kindle books, and they all have the same line spacing, but maybe I’m missing something.
The first is what is produced by Scrivener and the Second is my book but produced by hand – I purchased Scrivener so I could get away from doing it manually. Any help is appreciated.
Scrivener version: Font weight is too light and line spacing too small:
My version: this is the version I produce by hand which I am attempting to do with Scrivener
Could you please send me the original files of your hand-made .mobi (e.g. the HTML files)? Please send them to mac.support AT literatureandlatte DOT com. I would like to do some comparisons to find out exactly what is going on.
