I didn't know ebooks coded poems like that. It can be useful, I guess... Not something I would ever need to use, personally.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
You see the difference, I hope? But forget about poems and stanzas. Say you're using your reader on a train and you enter a dimly lit tunnel, this makes the words on the screen harder to read so you want to increase the font size. PDF no can do, a semantic format, easy.
The conversion process you describe will work well only for very simple PDF documents. Whereas if the source file was in something like HTML you could reliably, with high fidelity convert a far larger set of typographical features.
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I rarely use the increase font feature. The only time I use it is on new documents to get to the size I intend on using to read the whole book in. And the simple S, M, L sizes typically don't make the text large enough for me to see in low-lit areas, anyway. I'd wind up waiting until we were out of the tunnel anyway.
But I see your point, and I do use other formats for other uses, as I said. I'm giving BookDesigner a try now. Maybe it's just what I need to get me off my PDF fix.
