Title page formatting question

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Originally Posted by LadyKate

As long as the text is readable it is not a bad thing to me that the title page spills over when I up the font size. I would suggest setting it up using a moderate font size and let it "go where it may".

I agree... you reach a point where most of your design decisions will break at extremely large font sizes, and/or extremely small device sizes (cellphone).

It is just up to you to decide on a balance.

Originally Posted by LadyKate

When the reader has control over font size they can change the appearance of almost the entire book.

That is the entire point! The reader will read how the reader is most comfortable.. on whatever device they are most comfortable reading on!!

PDF = forcing you to read on a device that is at least X" x Y".

There was also discussion on all of this in this topic about converting math books to EPUB:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=228413

Originally Posted by mrmikel

What's wrong with the whole thing being an image?

Text in an image is a horrible idea. It does not scale well at all, and the larger/higher resolution the devices get, the worse those images will become.

The only cases where I can see it might be acceptable is:

• Images of a table, so it can "fit" on a smaller screen.
  • Although I prefer to HTMLize all tables.
    • This allows them to be searchable/copy/pastable, and scale/display according to user preferences.
    • This allows text-to-speech to handle them
    • Depending on how the information is laid out, you might want to tweak the tables to try to fit it into a more "vertical" space (the usual recommendation is try not to go beyond 4 columns wide)
• Images of math/formulas
  • It is acceptable until better MathML support.
  • But I prefer to at least get them into a more managable digital form and recreate higher resolution images as needed (See my Formula to PNG tutorial: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=223254)

There was some more discussion on Front Matter + Title Pages in this topic:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=228927