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Originally Posted by HarryT
One thing I like about Mobi is that fact that so much of the "presentation" is down to the viewer.
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Most of this -- and much more, actually -- could be done in EPUB with a user CSS overlay. It would provide the best of both worlds, allowing book designers to specify their desired formatting in detail while letting heathen plebian readers override it with their own hideous settings
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The only place which is chancy is fonts, but the reason impacts Mobipocket as well. No "real" font family includes glyphs for the entire Unicode character set, nor is reasonable to expect that the default fonts for a reader system will cover all of Unicode. This ultimately makes it necessary for a "complete" e-book format to support embedding fonts containing Unicode ranges not part of the standard font-set (which I should add to my "EPUB vs. Mobipocket" list). This combines with user-selected fonts only so long as the reader system can fallback to the designer-selected/default font when the user-selected font doesn't contain a glyph for a particular character. E.g. Web browsers already do this, but it doesn't always give the most attractive results when the user-selected font and designer-selected font don't mix well.