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Old 06-24-2010, 09:30 AM   #13
murraypaul
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Read the original article. iBooks doesn't allow the book creator to specify different fonts for different elements in the book. So if I wanted my books to have their heading in serif and text in sansserif (and setup calibre to do that) it would not work in iBooks. Lots of other reader software also doesn't aloow this, but they don't allow it in general, because they don't have decent font support at all. iBooks, in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to impose control, have delibrately crippled the (WebKit based) renderer in iBooks to not allow setting font families for *some* types of tags.
But that isn't isn't the same as them forcing a style choice on the user, they are just preventing someone else forcing a choice on the user. The user can still make their own choice.
As I said my preferred option would be something like the B&N app does, to allow a choice of using the hardcoded styles or allowing the user to override them.
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