[cerement]

Been watching the news about Kindle lately and got around to digging my old Palm TX out of storage and booting it up, cleaning off the old software, updating things, etc. Until I get around to upgrading to one of the eInk devices, I'm flipping back and forth between readers on the Palm, mainly Mobipocket and Plucker.

Mobipocket gets me familiar with the reader used on the Kindle and the Cybook. Plucker has the advantage of being open-source and having built-in conversions available on Project Gutenberg. And FontSmoother makes for more comfortable reading with both.

1) Even with FontSmoother installed, Mobipocket doesn't appear to use the real italics version of the font provided (instead does the force slant to fake italics). Plucker uses the real italics so I know it is available. Is there anyway to get Mobipocket to use the real italics rather than faking it?

2) Plucker, when paging, does a literal full screen that always leaves a couple pixels of the previous line at the top of the screen and cuts off a couple pixels at the bottom of the screen. Is there a way to get Plucker to do a full page flip by line so that a new page starts with a full line rather than the cutoff descenders of the previous page (in other words, paging in the style of Mobipocket)?