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Originally Posted by waykohler
Thanks for your feedback dstampe.
Hm, style file. Can you describe this in more detail? Im afraid I dont know what that is. There is a style section in the html but I dont think I have seen a lit with a style file.
The font size can be changed by pressing the size button on the reader. Not exactly what you want but....
Non standard fonts... Hm.. I always meant to not use the fonts in the LIT itself but reformat it totally according to my rules. LIT files has a tendency to be formated very differently and I like my books standardized. If you don't like my style...  Well I'll see if I can do a "style" editor later on.
It actually does handle multiple html files in one LIT file. Is does a page break in between them.
Yupp TOC would be nice. |
In explanation for some of these requests, I am looking at how to use the contents of a Microsoft Reader file. This consists of (at least for this book) a set of HTML files (about 40, with one chapter, title page, cover etc. in each) and links to form the book.
All style (paragraph and fonts) is in .CSS files (these are the page style files) for the text, with embedded tags in the text to select a style and to to set bold, italic etc. So these files need to be changed in order to set font face and style.
Finally, the nonstandard fonts are to make the text more readable on the smaller, lower contrast Sony Reader display. This really needs a larger font with fatter strokes such as a boldface Arial or Tiresias Bold. Times Roman types just are not very legible to me on the reader.
In the end, on this project I had to just convert the LIT to HTML, then the HTML to RTF (thus losing all pictures and structure), then hand-splicing the RTF files back into books, then convert all but boldface to boldface Arial and the ofiginal boldface to boldface Courier New (as boldface was critical for this book). Not great, but at least the Reader could handle the resulting RTF file well. I also tried converting to a PDF file with embedded fonts, but anything over 300 pages was ridiculously slow in turning pages in the last half, and there seemed to be a hard limit of 1000 PDF pages (I have not been able to get feedback as to whether anyone else has encountered this limit).
This is not something I'd want to repeat on a lot of books. So some kind of way to embed the desired fonts in the LRF and to change font type and size tags in the CSS and HTML files would be enough.
As for the TOC, I'd be OK if there was a page with links that could be bookmarked, then navigated via the existing HTML links.