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Originally Posted by fjtorres
On too many occassions, I've seen queries about how to customize epub rendering receive replies about opening up epubs, *manually* hardwiring the formatting, embedding fonts, etc. As if it were perfectly reasonable to expect consumers to be versed in website coding and do hours of work to fix defects in the file or the reader to be able to read an ebook. I just think that if epub is to be a solid publishing standard its ecosystem needs to be plug and play all the way through and not *expect* consumers to be technically proficient (even if, like you, they are). I've used Sigil once or twice, more or less under protest; it is a nice tool but it shouldn't need to be used that way. The standard and its supporting tools need to be better.
Just a matter of philosophy.
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on your philosophy I completely agree - and I promise you I am not at all proficient, indeed very much feel like a monkey pressing levers that for some reason hand out a peanut or two
I'd like to learn more, but if and when I choose, whereas here I am simply pressed by the fact that I'd like to be able to see the pie charts - I haven't yet tackle the font issue, which I'll overcome only if there is some monkey-proof one line fix - if it works, I'll report back!