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Originally Posted by theducks
There are a lot of things Sigil does not do for you. 
Like Base font resizing (OK, almost nothing with fonts). |
Oh! And there was I hoping not to have to dirty my hands with code! (There was a typo in my original message, which said 'Surely I should have to tweak code to achieve these very basic things?' I meant to say
shouldn't have to...)
Given that the ability to change font size and even the fonts themselves is one of the basic selling points of ebooks, I'm amazed that Sigil doesn't produce an ePub file that automatically allows this. We’ve only had our iPad for a couple of weeks and my wife just came back from a trip to Australia exclaiming about how much better books were to read on the iPad on the plane, compared to a standard book. The ability to have a larger type size, that was more contrasty, was what she really appreciated in the gloomy aircraft cabin. (She was less complimentary about the standard of typesetting in the two NYT Bestseller books she read on the Kindle Reader installed on the iPad.)
But thanks very much for the suggestions. I'll see what I can do with the code to provide something better. The text size that came out on my iPad was too small for comfortable reading. I imagine that on a smaller screen like the Kobo it would be very small.
Something your replies did not address was the issue of the ereader font size controls actually widening the leading between lines of type. I certainly need to stop it doing that - other than the increases/decreases in leading that should naturally accompany changes in size in the font itself.
Also strange was the fact that changing the font size in the ereader made chapter headings bigger, even if it didn't affect the body type.
I’ll have a bash at the code for type size and see what I come up with.
Thanks