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10-25-2013, 09:02 AM | #32 |
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On Marvin's Home screen, tap the "gear" icon in the top-left corner, then "About Marvin".
For a related discussion, see: https://github.com/kguil/Marvin-Road...mment-26809818 So, numeric values might be useful. Honestly, though, folks, I don't get all this yammering about "non-sticky fonts" upon the first opening of a book. The crucial thing, it would seem, is that once you set up your preferred font size (and everything else) for a book, it remains sticky there. Unlike in other e-readers! Even in my formerly beloved Stanza, fonts in the same book were not sticky between readings. And that is a real issue for me. There is no such problem in Marvin. When you enter a real-life bookstore or library, do you expect to find all books printed with the same font size? Definitely not. The big advantage of e-books, to my mind, is that you can easily adjust, with a few button presses, the typography of any book to your liking. And no e-reader is as superb in these customisation options as Marvin is. And, once you set up your preferred typography for a book, it remains 100% sticky there in Marvin. I truly believe there are far more important issues to be resolved regarding Marvin, than making fonts appear with the same initial size upon the first opening of a book. At least to me, this is a non-issue, or an issue with negligible importance compared to dozens of other issues that deserve the developer's attention at this point. |
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I have now opened a GitHub issue on this:
https://github.com/kguil/Marvin-Roadmap/issues/198 Once we have numeric values associated with every formatting setting in Marvin, including font size, it will be easier to determine as to why a new book supposedly does not initially open with the same preferred font size. It just bothers me to hear, over and over again, that "font sizes are not sticky in Marvin", when that's not true at all... They are 100% sticky; what is really meant, is "A new book I open in Marvin does not immediately show my preferred font size." That is how the complaint should be worded... |
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https://github.com/kguil/Marvin-Road...mment-27093021 If Marvin implements "Themes" so as not to understand only font & background colours (that is how Marvin understands "Themes" today), but for "Themes" to include all formatting settings -- then this will resolve all concerns mentioned in this thread. If a particular font size is associated with a particular Theme -- well, then all you need to do is to push a single button to switch to that preferred Theme of yours. Even better: you could instruct Marvin to open every new book using your preferred (or simply the current) Theme -- and that would spare you even the single push of a button; every new book would instantly look the way you'd like it to see. This will only be possible, though, once Marvin understands "Themes" to mean more than just the font & background colour. |
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I do not want to have to faff around for each book. I want set my font and size once and use it for all books, This is is how it works on all readers I have used Stanza, FBreader, Kobo, etc Marvin is the only one you have toset it for for each book. I somethimes alter font if I am tierd etc and wantmthat chnage for all books or at least consistent so that whne I go back to a book it is not random setting I made weeks ago. The advantage for ebooks is that you can set them all to the same readable style which you are acusomed to and not have to put up with other peoples e.g. publishers views. So "o you expect to find all books printed with the same font size? Definitely not." Which is a reason ebooks are better you can set the foint size to what I want not the publisher oe Marvin's author. This is one of the reasons pdfs are bad for ebooks. You do not need these you just need a global font and size Currently this is the one readson I have found to stick with Stanza |
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https://github.com/kguil/Marvin-Roadmap/issues/116 "About Marvin" is there on the "General" tab. You simply need to scroll downwards. (I know... it's not obvious that those panes are scrollable!) Well, if Settings Themes are implemented in Marvin like outlined above, you'll be able to do so. No, definitely not, trust me... You were lucky to have it work for you with your particular books in your particular e-readers... For me, Stanza was not always remembering font sizes neither between various books, nor between various readings or the same (!) book, which I found extremely frustrating. Marvin is the first e-reader I know of which keeps settings 100% sticky between readings, and sticky not for the app, but for each individual book, which I find crucial. Quote:
I'd be extremely upset if Kris removed the current way Marvin treats e-books: with individual settings for every book. Like I said, that's one of the smartest features currently offered by Marvin; a unique feature. Or, to oblige both of us, perhaps Marvin could offer a switch: "Remember settings on a book-by-book basis? YES/NO" You would select "No", while I would keep it at "Yes" (the current way Marvin operates), and everyone would be happy. Definitely. But please understand I may not wish to see the same settings for each and every book. That is just your wish. I find that depending on the type of book I'm reading, a (slightly or not so slightly) different typography might be preferable for book A, book B, book C, etc. |
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Right. It's a legitimate feature request by you. There are various ways to oblige you, as outlined above, so let's hope one of them will be implemented later on.
I have, you know... especially in very badly formatted e-books. It can easily happen for an e-book to employ extra-large or extra-small fonts. Then, if I adjusted those, this would negatively affect all the other books with normal-sized fonts... This was happening to me in Stanza, Kindle... Marvin is the first e-reader for me that prevents this from happening. |
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None of this is the fault of Marvin. It's the fault of the eBook. When I have two eBooks using the same font size in CSS, the font size displayed by Marvin is the same. So what you have to do is just keep adjusting the font size or edit the CSS to fix any font size commands that don't need to actually exist. |
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If numeric values are assigned to the various font size options, then Marvin can approximate the resulting, actually displayed font size, regardless of the CSS used, to the font size set by the Marvin user as preferable. This is definitely possible to achieve; look at Moon+ Pro Reader on Android. |
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Marvin would only be doing it optionally, not by default. The default could be just as it is now. But, if someone prefers to open all books instantly overriding their display with his or her favourite settings theme (including one's favourite font size)... why not? As you can see from this thread and others, the demand for such an optional feature seems very high.
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I for one agree with you, but that's just me. I've been saying the same thing in this thread, but got slammed for it. I think it's important to recognize that for some Marvin users, even "tapping a few times" is too much trouble. Most importantly, obliging those users would not take anything away from you, me, or anyone else. It would be a purely optional feature: opening a book, instantly overriding its display with one's favourite settings theme. No one would be forced to use this feature. (I believe this might be called a crucial principle when adding new software features: they should not be added so as to take previous, trusted functionality away from the users. Which is why Windows 8 has been such a debacle...) |
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