how to get a serif font to work in an epub

[Ray Tayek]

hi, trying ti get a serif font to work in an epub made by calibre.

i am altering the css by adding:

body {
font-family: "Times", "Times New Roman", serif;
}

to the stylesheet.css file in the unzipped epub.

doing a kindlegen on the opf, and viewing the mobi file in kindle reader shows me a serif font.

zipping up the epub (it still passes epubcheck) and viewing with mobi reader shows me a sans-serif font.

how do i make the epub use a serif font?

thanks

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by Ray Tayek

zipping up the epub (it still passes epubcheck) and viewing with mobi reader shows me a sans-serif font.

If "mobi reader" is Windows MobiPocket Reader (WMR), it does not read ePub directly. If you "import" an ePub WMR will convert it to MOBI and then display the MOBI. You could just as easily have it read the MOBI from kindlegen (WMR invokes an older version of kindlegen to do the conversion).

The usual advise for a MOBI ebook is not to set the font, because WMR (for example) allows the reader to choose the font they like. I think it should honor "serif" though.

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by Ray Tayek

hi, trying ti get a serif font to work in an epub made by calibre.

i am altering the css by adding:

body {
font-family: "Times", "Times New Roman", serif;
}

to the stylesheet.css file in the unzipped epub.

It is probably easier and less error prone to use Calibre's Extra CSS to do this.

[Ray Tayek]

Originally Posted by wallcraft

It is probably easier and less error prone to use Calibre's Extra CSS to do this.

i'll give that a try.

thanks