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Originally Posted by JSWolf
All I can say is WOW! Those two samples look awful. One looks like eReader and the other looks worse. It's like someone doesn't know how to make decent looking eBooks.
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What's wrong with looking like eReader? Anyway, that's Stanza using Helvetica because I personally find a sans serif font easier for reading at smaller font sizes than a serif font (the serifs get in the way and make things more jumbled). Helvetica works for me. Unfortunately iBooks only exposes Verdana, which does not. I've also intentionally enabled both paragraph indent and paragraph spacing because I like having both. Yes, I realize you're only "supposed" to do one or the other, but if I want both why not let me have both? If my font, margin, indentation, and spacing choices are "ugly" to you, you're completely welcome to change those values in Stanza
iBooks (the one that looks worse) is there in all of its mostly-default glory, with the only change being that I turned on full justification. That's the terrible default font of Palatino at the default font size. I'm not sure I'd blame the source material for it looking terrible.