[MacEachaidh]

Hi James,
It's been commented on in other threads that the default English-language font on the Story doesn't support most accented characters, which is a shortcoming. You can copy other fonts into the device's Font folder, and you've probably seen that you can change the font choice in the settings, but that only affects the font display in the notepad and diary. It doesn't change the display of TXT, DOC or ePub files. I asked iRiver if they were going to implement font selection for documents as well, and the tech guy said yes "at some point", but I have a suspicion it was like the guy who recently told you you could change the brightness/contrast of the screen.

The only two options you have, as far as I've been able to discover, is to convert documents to PDF, as long as you use embeddable fonts. But then you have the limitations of trying to read a PDF.

The alternative, which is a bit effort-intensive, is to convert the document to ePub format and embed fonts in the ePub file. You can't do that directly in Calibre, but if you use an ePub-editing app like Sigil after the ePub has been created, you can add fonts to the file's Fonts folder and specify their use in the CSS with code like the following:

@font-face {
font-family: "Fontin";
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
src: url(../Fonts/Fontin-Regular.ttf);
}

to tell the device where the font file is, and then referencing that font in the style with something like:

body {
font-family: "Fontin", serif;
}

I've tried this on the Story, and it works without any hiccoughs. I could get different fonts on-screen, and it didn't noticeably slow down the screen display speed.

But having to recode documents and the like gets a bit tedious. My wishlist includes being able to install fonts on the device and tell the Story to use them for standard display, and either increase the number of zoom sizes to more than the three you currently get, or else give us the ability to assign specific point sizes to the ones that are already defined.

Anyway, I hope some of this helps.