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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's exactly the approach that MobiPocket Reader uses. Have relatively little "layout" information in the book and let the reader decide such things as font, justification, margin size, paragraph spacing, etc. Different versions of the Mobi Reader allow you different degrees of control; the Pocket PC and desktop versions are currently the most flexible; the iLiad the least flexible. The CyBook Gen3 is somewhere in the middle - it will currently allow you to set font face and size and justification, but not margin size or paragraph spacing. I'm sure it'll get better with future software updates.
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You're referring to the Cybook firmware, and not the Mobi reader, I assume.
You're kind of at the mercy of the platform for some things. Palm OS, for example, has eight font slots: Standard, Bold, Large, Symbol, Symbol11, Symbol7, LED, and Large Bold. These are mapped to fonts in ROM, but third party utilities like Fonthack will let you map other fonts into those slots on an application by application basis. You don't have the sort of flexibility in font choices Windows offers. I'm currently using FonthackV to map a converted version of the Cambria True Type font in Mobi as the standard text font, and it works fairly well, but it would be nice if I didn't have to resort to that sort of work-around.
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Dennis