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Old 09-05-2011, 09:18 PM   #1
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Font in book view

I'm experimenting (ie learning) with converting a plain text file to an epub book. Because it is a text file there are no fonts specified in the document and Sigil seems by default to show the text in a sans-serif font when in the book view pane. I prefer a serif font when reading but havent found anywhere I can change to this. It's not a problem when the file is in my Kobo because I can specify the font in the reader - I just want to be able to change the default font in Sigil to make my proof reading easier. Is there anywhere I can do this? I haven't managed to find it if there is.
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You have to change that in the stylesheet. If you want to do it for the whole document, put it in a body specification.
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To expand a bit on the comment made by Toxaris and I can only vouch for this on Windows systems.

Apparently Sigil will use the Windows font files to display the text in "book view" if it is specified in the css. It is not necessary to have the font files present in the ebook itself.

I insert the following line in the <body> definition:

font-family: Times New Roman; (pick one)

I remove it on the last pass since there are no font files present and it might cause problems for those few ereaders that support in line fonts.

If you are not using Windows you can try it and see what happens - it can't hurt.

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Old 09-06-2011, 01:24 PM   #4
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It is not required to actually name a font. Just:
Code:
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font-family: serif;
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Will doing that with a non-embedded font trigger the dreaded QTWebKit bug?
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Old 09-06-2011, 03:05 PM   #6
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No, WebKit's problems with italics and bold only extend to fonts embedded in the epub (and there are hopeful signs that it might finally be fixed with the release of Qt 4.8). You won't have this problem if you use a generic font-family or specify a system font name.
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It is not required to actually name a font. Just:
Code:
body {
font-family: serif;
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Thanks. That is a handy bit of info I can put to use now. This makes it easy to go back and forth (serif/sans serif).

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No, WebKit's problems with italics and bold only extend to fonts embedded in the epub (and there are hopeful signs that it might finally be fixed with the release of Qt 4.8). You won't have this problem if you use a generic font-family or specify a system font name.
I did look into the status of that bug a while back, and saw that it was something like "We've decided to forego fixing the bug in favor of rewriting the entire fonts API." I'm not a programmer though, so although I could see that somebody was doing work I wasn't terribly sure what the work was or what it meant.
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Many thanks one and all. I'm off to learn a bit more about style sheets and definitions (and html in general) The file has been converted from raw text so Sigil hasn't created any styling - it's all up to me now... I had hoped that Sigil might have had a place where you could define what default font it would use for display (just like my e-reader does) but it doesn't seem like that is the case. Still, for version 0.4 (and free) it's pretty good and fairly intuative to use.
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Actually, why would Sigil do that? By default your reader has a serif and a non-serif font and sometimes more. An ePUB will refer to the default serif or non-serif font. If you want another font, you either have to include it in the ePUB or specify it on the reader. The latter is usually not possible.
The display in Sigil is not intended as a reading option.
BTW, Sigil will not create any styling for you. That's up to you and actually a big strength of the program.
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Many thanks one and all. I'm off to learn a bit more about style sheets and definitions (and html in general) The file has been converted from raw text so Sigil hasn't created any styling - it's all up to me now... I had hoped that Sigil might have had a place where you could define what default font it would use for display (just like my e-reader does) but it doesn't seem like that is the case. Still, for version 0.4 (and free) it's pretty good and fairly intuative to use.
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For (raw) TXT files, I usually run them through Calibre first, then touch the result up with Sigil. Saves a whole lot of work
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For (raw) TXT files, I usually run them through Calibre first, then touch the result up with Sigil. Saves a whole lot of work
This is the best route to go. calibre has very good and advanced detection for paragraphs and formatting. Combined with heuristic processing you can get about 85 - 90% formatted.
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Actually, why would Sigil do that?
purely for the convenience/comfort of the user while checking the book creation. Some of us find a serif font is easier to follow accross the page (there is a reason why books are usually printed with serif fonts!).

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BTW, Sigil will not create any styling for you. That's up to you and actually a big strength of the program.
Don't have a problem with that - I have to use MS Word etc at work and get constantly frustrated when it keeps wanting to do things I don't want it to do!

I'm a comms tech by trade, don't know much about html - just have to learn something new.

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purely for the convenience/comfort of the user while checking the book creation. Some of us find a serif font is easier to follow accross the page (there is a reason why books are usually printed with serif fonts!).
The problem is of course that if you can set a DISPLAY font for Sigil, a lot of people will expect that font to be in the ePUB when they put it on there reader. Actually, I find a serif font easier to read than non-serif in a book. However, the default will depend on the reader application. That is the reason that I always set the font-family to serif. It is easy and does the job.
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That is the reason that I always set the font-family to serif. It is easy and does the job.
But with the Cybook Orizon, for example, that overrides the font selected by the user, so use with care
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