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Old 12-13-2014, 11:00 PM   #229
eschwartz
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Originally Posted by Rizla View Post
The code is already in place to 1) increase / decrease font size, and 2) the same for margins. Adding an extra in-between font size and margin setting to an existing series of cases barely complicates code because the framework is already there. Adding extra font sizes is trivial.
And to add extra UI methods of accessing that code does not make use of an existing framework.

Question: Do you have 20+ years of professional programming experience, and have you unpacked the Kindle firmware to take a look at what you'd need to do to change things?

Perhaps it is even possible the current codebase already locks things into place as-is.

It seems to me as though you may be merely assuming things simply because you want them to be true...

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To mess this up would take a very poor programmer indeed...
And please stop underestimating human ingenuity.
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