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Originally Posted by troyunverdruss
When I say that I opened it on my desktop, I mean in a text editor with a mono-spaced font and the grid worked/looked fine (not the linux desktop version of FBreader).
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Well, unless you can post a screen capture that would show otherwise, I think you're just seeing the difference between mono-spaced and proportional-spaced fonts. Probably you already know that, but I'll say it for the record.
I tried applying FBReader formatting styles to plain text files like those from Project Gutenberg, and the reader didn't seem to recognize titles and section titles (but I only did a one-minute check, in one file).
There is a plain text reader now in beta designed specially for Project Gutenberg texts that uses logic to ascertain when a PG text file is starting a new chapter and what "paragraphs" are really titles and what words are italicized by surrounding underscores and so on. This is what the creator, who goes by the name bowerbird, terms zero markup language (and/or zen m.l., I haven't gotten it straight if these are two terms or one). So it's possible that the same sort of logic could be put into FBReader in order to format text files following the Format options.
And in that case, perhaps the "graphic" could be specified as requiring a monospaced font, and then it would appear perfectly, I predict.
I should add that bowerbird has apparently honed his algorithms to the nth degree, and moreover is not releasing them as open source, so I'm not saying FBReader would match what the beta zml reader would do with those PG texts. But the general outline of them is well-known, I would say.
I should also add that while bowerbird indicates he isn't averse to porting his c-coded reader to Maemo, there are many obstacles to getting it ported, so I wouldn't look for that reader on the 770 any time soon.