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Originally Posted by jmacg
I've just done my first ebook - using Sigil in Windows. It's mostly OK, but on the two readers I've looked at it on, the font size controls don't work. All they do is increase or decrease the leading. And they change the size of chapter headings. But not the body font. The readers I have used are Kobo and Stanza.
Nor can I change the font itself.
Any ideas? Surely I should have to tweak code to achieve these very basic things?
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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) . Headings are
not a substitute for font control
Perkin had the idea, play in
em.
if you place a simple line with no styling
and look at it on your reader without using any "Zoom" controls, that is 1em on your reader.
Now find the style selector that controls your standard Paragraph in your book.
locate, font-size: add 1 or 2
tenths to the 1em
and see how you like the result. Trim up or down by hundredths.
On my 5" Astak, I use 1.25em for basic text (and Zoom 2, the default Zoom 1 seems to ignore the base size)