Does having two different fonts in original document screw up Sigil/ebook?

[Gregg Bell]

I'm typing this big doc (It's a novel. I'll make the epub and then do the Kindlegen to make it a mobi too.) in LibreOffice in Times New Roman. Occasionally (if anybody has a clue why this might be happening please let me know) LibreOffice switches the font of the paragraph I'm typing from Times New Roman to Liberation Serif.

I have to of course turn the .odt into an .html and then bring it over to Sigil, but I'm wondering (I'm of course going to try to convert whatever Liberation Serif I can find back to Times New Roman) if some Liberation Serif is still in there, is it going to screw up the font on the final product? (Will there be two different fonts in the epub and mobi?)

Thanks.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

I'm typing this big doc (It's a novel. I'll make the epub and then do the Kindlegen to make it a mobi too.) in LibreOffice in Times New Roman. Occasionally (if anybody has a clue why this might be happening please let me know) LibreOffice switches the font of the paragraph I'm typing from Times New Roman to Liberation Serif.

I have to of course turn the .odt into an .html and then bring it over to Sigil, but I'm wondering (I'm of course going to try to convert whatever Liberation Serif I can find back to Times New Roman) if some Liberation Serif is still in there, is it going to screw up the font on the final product? (Will there be two different fonts in the epub and mobi?)

Thanks.

That has got to be a OO ODT thing.

Sigil works fine with many fonts...
As long as you get the @font, font-family bit correct.

I changed one books DOS era computer screen dialog to a IBM 3270 Monospace (IBM Mainframe-3270 display, era font had a distinctive look)
Chapter Heads were LCD/LED digits
For most cases, I leave the main body font alone (device default)

BTW Have you tried Writer2epub (PI) to see what happens that way?

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

. . . LibreOffice switches the font of the paragraph I'm typing from Times New Roman to Liberation Serif. . . .

Probably a keyboard shortcut that you're tapping inadvertently.

e.g. Ctrl+something rather than Shift or Alt+something or something like that.

BR

[Gregg Bell]

Originally Posted by theducks

That has got to be a OO ODT thing.

Sigil works fine with many fonts...
As long as you get the @font, font-family bit correct.

I changed one books DOS era computer screen dialog to a IBM 3270 Monospace (IBM Mainframe-3270 display, era font had a distinctive look)
Chapter Heads were LCD/LED digits
For most cases, I leave the main body font alone (device default)

BTW Have you tried Writer2epub (PI) to see what happens that way?

Thanks ducks. I think I've figured a way to make sure the font is consistent throughout, so I should be okay with Sigil.

I'll try Writer2epub and see what it does.

[Gregg Bell]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Probably a keyboard shortcut that you're tapping inadvertently.

e.g. Ctrl+something rather than Shift or Alt+something or something like that.

BR

Thanks BetterRed. That makes sense because it only seems to happen when I'm flying around on the keyboard. And now I can explore LibreOffice's keyboard shortcuts and see if any are for changing fonts.

[Gregg Bell]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Probably a keyboard shortcut that you're tapping inadvertently.

e.g. Ctrl+something rather than Shift or Alt+something or something like that.

BR

Yep. You got it. Thanks. (See screenshot)