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Originally Posted by jmacg
Others in this thread have suggested that Sigil does deliver a fixed font size by default. That's how I interpret comments like: "There are a lot of things Sigil does not do for you. Like Base font resizing (OK, almost nothing with fonts). You get the very basic: Bold (1 font-weight), Italic (1font-style), Underline or StrikeThru (2 font-decorations)."
Now I admit I'm a total newbie, and I may have misinterpreted the above, and other comments, that led me to believe I would have to change the code myself before fonts could be made scalable in an ereader. And while I’m a newbie as far as HTML and Sigil are concerned, I do have long experience with book design and I know that what Sigil delivered to the ebook readers on my iPad was not good design.
I do know I did exactly as I was advised to do in the Sigil tutorial. I loaded text created in MS Word and saved as HTML (web page, filtered). I made no changes to the code whatsoever, and the result was a small fixed font in the ereader.
So what’s with the negative karma nonsense?
My point is that I believe Sigil should produce code that by default allows fonts to be scalable in ereaders.
Would my result have been any different if I had loaded plain text into Sigil, rather than HTML?
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Your source provided a fixed font,
if any, NOT SIGIL.
In absence of any instructions, your reader provides a fixed font.
Them's called DEFAULTS.
Hear no font specification, see no font size controls.
GIGO