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Originally Posted by jackie_w
Kobo probably think they've already 'fixed it' for those who care enough, i.e. use epub with a sideloaded Courier font. All they needed to do was to fix one of the pre-existing settings in the Adobe-supplied epub reading app. Effort required minimal - nevertheless appreciated by some of us.
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Thanks.
I remembered JSWolf talking about the monospace bug + how to work around it
years ago.
A few years ago, I emailed one of the head QA guys at Kobo about a question I had from
his ebookcraft 2018 talk.
After answering, since I had him, I pointed him to those monospace threads too. :P
He forwarded the info to the QA team, so I assume they are/have been aware of it!
Then just a few weeks ago, I
finally began applying some custom patches to my Kobo Forma.
I saw some of those "rendering fixes" mentioned in the official notes, so I hoped that was one of them!
Shame to see nothing has moved on that front, and if anything, they made it harder to work around. (No more easy sideloading monospace fonts.)
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Originally Posted by jackie_w
Kobo *could* make the kepub font-family override CSS less aggressive (there are kobopatches which can do this). It would almost certainly lead to more complaints for their Help Desk when the less aggressive font-family override failed to override in the way the user expected because of the badly-designed CSS found in so many retail books.
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Could you point me to those patches?
I was trying to find those a few weeks ago, but couldn't. And there was just so much info to dig through... heh.