Leafmark — I built an EPUB reader because I never got over Marvin

[AkiraT]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I have found some issues.

Boldness should be called font weight. 125% does nothing. The foot weight should also have fine granular control. This following post from another thread describes how the font weight should work.


Next issue is that when adjusting the font size. line height, and margins, I cannot see the text on the screen on my iPhone.

Line height is too large. There is no way to make it any smaller.

Margins should allow the text to go all the way to edge of the screen. Also, margins should have a more fine adjustment instead of .50x to .75x.

When displaying the cover, it's not properly displayed in landscape. In landscape, there is white space above and below the cover.

Landscape doesn't work. There should be a setting for columns and a setting for the space between columns. As it is, There white space above and below the page. There's too much white space on the left/right side of the screen. It should be over to the left side of the screen and go fully to the right side (depending on L/R margin settings).

In portrait, there is too much white space at the bottom of the screen.

There should be an option for a header showing how many pages are left in the chapter and a setting to show a footer with how many pages read and how many pages in the book. The page numbers should use ADE (RMSDK) page numbers.

When using import font, do you have to import a ZIP file containing all the fonts or do you import the fonts one at a time?

And speaking of fonts, you should allow choosing from all of the system fonts that come with iOS/iPadOS.

Thank you for taking the time to go through Leafmark this carefully. I appreciate you writing all of this up.

On the font import question, no ZIP is needed. The picker takes .ttf, .otf and .ttc files directly, and you can select more than one at a time.

The quote about font weight was helpful. I had not thought about it that way. Adjusting all the variants makes more sense than what I am doing
now. I have renamed the control to Font Weight and made it finer-grained, and I am digging into why 125% does nothing.

One thing I want to be sure I understand. On your iPhone, the text is not visible while you adjust the settings. Is the text itself gone, or is
the settings panel covering it? A screenshot would help.

Line height and margins are already reworked for the next build: line height goes lower and adjusts in finer steps, and margins now go all the
way down to zero with finer steps too. The system font list is in as well. Landscape layout is what I am working on next, and the header and
footer page counts are on my list. I will report back here once the build is out.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by AkiraT

Thank you for taking the time to go through Leafmark this carefully. I appreciate you writing all of this up.

On the font import question, no ZIP is needed. The picker takes .ttf, .otf and .ttc files directly, and you can select more than one at a time.

Thanks.

The quote about font weight was helpful. I had not thought about it that way. Adjusting all the variants makes more sense than what I am doing
now. I have renamed the control to Font Weight and made it finer-grained, and I am digging into why 125% does nothing.

I know why the font weight at 125% does nothing. It;s because of the way it's implemented. It's implemented such that it ups the weight based on the fonts. 125% would be (I think) semibold. When the weight is increased, it's increased because it's now using the bold version of the font instead of programmatically increasing the weight of all of the fonts as they are used. The regular version should be used with the app adding weight to that. But as it's programmed, you only get regular (no weight added) or bold. But I expect that the next release will work properly for the font weight.

One thing I want to be sure I understand. On your iPhone, the text is not visible while you adjust the settings. Is the text itself gone, or is
the settings panel covering it? A screenshot would help.

The problem is that the settings are on top of all of the text so I cannot se what effect changing some of the settings are making without closing the settings.

Line height and margins are already reworked for the next build: line height goes lower and adjusts in finer steps, and margins now go all the
way down to zero with finer steps too. The system font list is in as well.

Very nice!

Landscape layout is what I am working on next, and the header and
footer page counts are on my list. I will report back here once the build is out.

When you have landscape sorted, I'll test it with my 12.9" iPad Pro which is where I'll need it the most.