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Old 08-20-2014, 12:32 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
being upable to select teh font FAMILY is a much more common annoyance.

even a generic line like font=family:serif; is enough to "fix" fhe family and disable font selection on device a far as Kobo reader is concerned.

Line spacing controls ARE disabled by relative sizes like 1.2em; AND by non specified unit statement like line-height: 1.2;

so the line spacer controls are useless unless ALL line height CSS is manually removed.

If you look at Kinldes devices, their font / line controls just work.
Original discussion was about font-size not changing. Yes, I know that line height uses the CSS value which is lets me select the line height for my personal preferences on ebooks for my use. For ebooks for others, I simply remove all the line height items along with some other personal preferences. Similarly, I only use embedded fonts and/or font definitions that are necessary for the book display which generally means a monospaced font for displaying computer I/O. Nothing like an upper case monospaced piece of text to make me nostagic for the TTY-33.

Kindles are a different critter since the formats are proprietary and controlled by Amazon. It's quite possible that they allow overriding even fixed size text and line heights as do some non-standard compliant epub readers.

Regards,
David

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