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Originally Posted by Xenophon
I've read and enjoyed The Ark; have yet to read the others. I was disturbed to discover, however, that your Mobipocket books attempt to mandate their particular choice of fonts. This is unfortunate, because it persists through automatic conversion to ePub (by way of Calibre). The mandated fonts (Times Roman, etc.) then interfere with the simplest way of over-riding the fonts so I can read with MY choice instead of yours.
I suspect that what you really wanted was to control things like "body", italic, emphasis, mono-spaced vs. not, and maybe even serif font vs. sans serif font. Going beyond that to mandate specific fonts is a rather iffy step -- most ebook readers don't have your particular choice of fonts installed anyway!
Can you produce source files (mobi or whatever) that control the part you want, but not the specific font-family? It would be wonderful...
Xenophon
P.S. With a bit more thought I realize that most likely you (as author) didn't really mandate a specific font in the eBooks. Rather, MS Word (or whatever) looked at your default font settings and passed those through to the HTML that got converted to mobi that....
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Another example of me not really knowing what I'm doing with Mobipocket. I didn't know it was not letting you change the font. I'll see what I can do about it.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Cheers,
Boyd