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Old 10-29-2007, 02:30 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
What I meant was that it's not clear to me how it would be practical to change fonts in a document which might contain several different fonts. ie which font would you change? The ability to change font seems to be associated, almost inevitably, with the requirement that a document only contain a single font. ie the inability to change font is, in a sense, due to the lack of the restriction that a document only contain one font.



There are many books in which it is advantageous to use different fonts. Eg, in a programming textbook, one would probably want to have the main text of the book in a proportional font, but the code listings in a monospaced font. The Reader can do that - MobiPocket can't.
TYpically you do this by specifying alternate font families. For e.g. an alternate monospaced family or an alternate serif family etc.
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