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Old 04-27-2018, 03:23 PM   #16
jackie_w
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Originally Posted by geek1011 View Post
The only thing is I'm not going to make a feature to put the css back. For that, you'll need to make a patch and apply that instead.
Is there something I'm not understanding ?

Let me outline my own problem with the current pipcat-plus-makepatch method which adds an unreadable, untweakable blackbox hexcode patch to GeoffR's nickel.patch file.

A hypothetical new patch...
I make a patch to a CSS stream which changes the GUI booklist Title to the Avenir font in bold and not italic. It will probably require me to also change the font-size. I use makepatch and publish it.

Everybody loves it (I did say this was hypothetical) or rather the idea of it, except
... I'd like to use Bookerly, not bold, at a different font-size
... no, I like the new bold but I preferred the old Georgia
... no, I want Bookerly italic
... etc etc

How many makepatch's do I need to create to make everyone happy?

What is desirable for a new approach to patching zlib CSS would be the ability to patch a zlib in the same way that the nozlib `Custom reading footer style` patch allows, i.e. the user can tweak one or more variables all for the same CSS stream.

Other opinions are also available...
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