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Originally Posted by jackie_w
You changed threads, are you trying to confuse me?
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it was a pre-emptive change before the mods say "this no longer has anything to do with Calibre ! ". I jumped before being pushed.
please see PM but 2 specific reasons for NOT wanting to remove all font-family assignments.
1. practicality - I would have to manually edit each book unless there is a cleaver way to do it via modify e-pub plug-in
2. I still like to edit in Sigil, I'm trying to migrate to calibre editor but tend to fall back to the software I know best. Sigil book view is awful unless there's a font-family setting, it's hard to read & the QT package leaves trailing bits of characters as you insert/delete text. SO pretty much every book I've ever edited has a font family setting which I've forced in via a calibre conversion or a modify e-pub tweak
So I am hopeful that a consistent use of append css can lead to consistent appearance on Kobo
e.g. instead of just appending
p { font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;}
I could also append
body { font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;}
If, however, I do strip out every font-family statement, do all the built-in Kobo fonts then all start to work, and what do I then see when I select "document original font". if YES , then maybe that's an acceptable trade-off for some ugliness within Sigil book view, but how would I automate finding & removing all those ?
I think I've still not grasped the font sizing issues fully - maybe this is because some books had an explicit 1em value & others have nothing at all ( because older readers than assumed 1em ? )
is there a "proper" written kobo user manual anywhere, not the tiny one in the box that only tells you how to do set-up ?
update: google finds a reasonable length user guide but it mostly restates the obvious.
I Like old-school manuals for programmers like IBM used to write
I did find this in the iuser guide though, which answers one question for me
Note:
• When you change the way text looks, your eReader
remembers your preferred text size and style, and
applies it to other books you read in the future.