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Originally Posted by TuxGirl
Interestingly, one effect that I'm seeing is that now the menu for selecting a font shows all the fonts in italic, but when I select them, they aren't italic. Not sure why that happened (and it could have happened when the kobo updated to 4.3.8945 earlier today), but I can definitely live with that.
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This is due to a recent change in the firmware. I suspect it's just Kobo trying to standardise the appearance of all their drop-down menus to display entries as italic. Personally, I think it looks a bit weird on the font-family drop-down but, same as you, I can live with it.
As for your monospace problem ... welcome to the wonderful world of epub versus kepub
Although I've been using Kobos for years I didn't bother with kepubs at all until I got my KA1. Once I decided to give them a try it became clear how different they are when it comes to style issues (monospace, sans-serif, small-caps, hyphenation, ligatures and footnotes).
For kepubs, styling as monospace is actually easier in some ways than it is for epubs because all that's required is to change the CSS from
font-family:monospace to
font-family:"Courier New" (if "Courier New" is your chosen sideloaded monospace font) rather than needing to add @font-face statements. The obvious problem being that this requires manually editing every book which uses monospace.
This would be time-consuming but, worse than that, making these changes to your master epub in calibre would almost certainly be counter-productive if you also want to send the master epub to a different device, e.g. Android, or even if you change your mind and decide that standard epubs are preferable for the Kobo.
I did solve this conundrum for myself by customising my personal copy of the KoboTouchExtended plugin driver to make the necessary CSS changes on-the-fly during the calibre send-to-device process. This is obviously not an option for everyone but if you have some Python coding skills it's possible to do all sorts of interesting (OK, I'm a nerd
) stuff on-the-fly. Should you ever choose to go down this route feel free to PM me. I'm happy to share anything you'd find useful.