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cybmole · 05-06-2011, 02:32 PM

there's a dependency on fonts , here.
Am currently proofing a book with has an explicit font type of times new roman set in styleshhet. I see no artifacts at all (& good looking curly quotes...)

I reckon that the artifacts occur only when there is no explicit font type set in CSS. sigil then seems to default to some ugly font which does not support curly quotes & which does have the artifacts bug.

so it could maybe be fixed ( by Valloric ) via a change to sigil's default book view font, and a workaround could be for me to define a font type in each book ( knowing that my Sony reader will ignore any such definition & will use it's own fonts anyway ?

What IS sigil's default book view font & how easy to change it ?

PROOF. open sigil, select new document, start typing e.g.
testing new book font " " " "
I observe immediiately that the g in testing has a badly formed serif which will break up when text is reflowed. sure enough it does, as I insert more text to cause a new line.

the bottom of curve of the g is cut off, as if the letter is too large for the line space, and it's that missing bottom bit that later appears as an artifact.

I can improve things with zoom in option but that is not a sticky option if seems to apply only to current page in current book & is lost on save / reload.

05-06-2011, 02:32 PM	#11
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	there's a dependency on fonts , here. Am currently proofing a book with has an explicit font type of times new roman set in styleshhet. I see no artifacts at all (& good looking curly quotes...) I reckon that the artifacts occur only when there is no explicit font type set in CSS. sigil then seems to default to some ugly font which does not support curly quotes & which does have the artifacts bug. so it could maybe be fixed ( by Valloric ) via a change to sigil's default book view font, and a workaround could be for me to define a font type in each book ( knowing that my Sony reader will ignore any such definition & will use it's own fonts anyway ? What IS sigil's default book view font & how easy to change it ? PROOF. open sigil, select new document, start typing e.g. testing new book font " " " " I observe immediiately that the g in testing has a badly formed serif which will break up when text is reflowed. sure enough it does, as I insert more text to cause a new line. the bottom of curve of the g is cut off, as if the letter is too large for the line space, and it's that missing bottom bit that later appears as an artifact. I can improve things with zoom in option but that is not a sticky option if seems to apply only to current page in current book & is lost on save / reload.