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Originally Posted by Liudprand
In fact, there are a lot of things that I often think ebooks should be able to do that, as far as I know, they still can't. This is in danger of straying off-topic, I guess, so I'll confine myself to one. It seems obvious to me that chapter headings and subheadings should be treated differently from body-text, in the sense that, if you increase the font size on your device, that doesn't mean that you want the headings to become so large and cumbersome that a single word - "Acknowledgements", or whatever - grows so large that it goes over a single line. So, one solution (I've no idea how easy it would be to actualize) would be for headings to vary, when you change the font size, within much narrower parameters (so, for every five points the main text changes, the headings change by one point, or something); and with a hard maximum on their size, so that they don't go over a line.
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About font size I don't agree with You. The obvious solution is to set the size of headings not too much greater than normal text so when the reader increases the size of the font on the device the size of headings won't be too large.
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Originally Posted by Liudprand
The handling of headings - e.g. the failure, usually, for them to be centred in kepub files even when they're originally formatted as centred - is one of the things that, I think, makes a lot of publishing-industry people basically ignore ebooks until the technology has improved.
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As far as I know kepub centers headings when they are centered in the original epub. In this forum there are people much more skilled than me but I have never encountered that issue.
ps: about old-style numbers I don't agree with You again but the important thing is that You shouldn't force the reader to see them. A Ebook is not a printed book: the reader have the choice about font (and line spacing, margins etc.) Who likes them can use a font with old-style numbers and who doesn't like them can use a font without them. There are font variants in some font but it is a complicated matter and they are rarely supported by ereaders or app.