Moon+ reader pro idiot guide please

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Faterson

Good news: the italics/bold KitKat bug is fixed in the most recent Moon+ Beta version. Looking forward to the regular release!

Yay!!!! Whoohoo!!! I can't wait! Thank you for keeping us updated.

[booklover6]

Awesome news, any idea when it will be released?

[Faterson]

Nope... gotta be patient... it wasn't working yesterday, but it is working today in the beta, so the fix should be coming soon officially.

[Faterson]

PS: If any of you wish to test this on your own device (at your own risk), PM me and I'll send you the beta download link. It's the free Moon+ version, though, not the full Moon+ Pro, so I can't fully test this myself in my regular working Moon+ Pro copy, due to some fonts not being available in the free Moon+ version. The more eyes check this, the more potential, outstanding errors we can discover. I'm not familiar with some of the free fonts, and perhaps other users might discover something still amiss with italics in those fonts. My own preferred custom Moon+ fonts now look fine with italics and bold.

[Faterson]

Originally Posted by Faterson

By the way, there is one feature that lacks customisation in Moon+, too: the size of the first-line indent. You can currently only choose "yes or no", but the current size of the first-line indent in Moon+ is too big for my taste. I wrote to Moon+ developer to request to make that size customisable, but no luck so far.

Ah, but it is there! I now also got a note from the Moon+ developer, pointing out that the option to adjust the size of first-line indent has recently been added. I never noticed in what version that happened. It's under Miscellaneous options, first-line indent option, tap the gear icon at the right side of it. There are 4 options now, and option 1 suits me perfectly -- it seems to correspond to my preferred size of first-line indent, which is around 3.5mm; I often see this size in printed books.

What a great Moon+ day! Italics & bold KitKat bug squashed, and first-line indent customisation option discovered!

[Faterson]

Update on the italics/bold KitKat issue: it appears that Android 4.4.1 has now been released (not yet for my 2013 Nexus 7 as a standard OTA update, though), and just like the Moon+ developer predicted, it automatically resolves the italics/bold bug as visible in Moon+.

This, of course, raises the question for the Moon+ developer: should he "code around" the Android bug as he has just successfully done in the Beta version, or should he just wait for Android to resolve the bug for him. If the distribution of Android 4.4.1 drags on as much as the original 4.4 did, it could take weeks until everyone gets it.

[barba]

In PDF when I swipe up or down Moon+ reader zoom in.

How I can disable this?

Thank you in advance.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by barba

In PDF when I swipe up or down Moon+ reader zoom in.

How I can disable this?

Thank you in advance.

You could look for it in Control options.

[ailioiu]

Hello people, nice to meet you!

I have a number of ebooks, some in epub format, some epub and mobi. As expected, in case of the files present in both formats, Moon+ displays the book twice on the shelf.

Is there a way to tell Moon+ to display only one file format?

Thank you

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by ailioiu

Hello people, nice to meet you!

I have a number of ebooks, some in epub format, some epub and mobi. As expected, in case of the files present in both formats, Moon+ displays the book twice on the shelf.

Is there a way to tell Moon+ to display only one file format?

Thank you

Why do you need two formats of the same book? I would delete the mobi or move them to another folder.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Faterson

Ah, but it is there! I now also got a note from the Moon+ developer, pointing out that the option to adjust the size of first-line indent has recently been added. I never noticed in what version that happened. It's under Miscellaneous options, first-line indent option, tap the gear icon at the right side of it. There are 4 options now, and option 1 suits me perfectly -- it seems to correspond to my preferred size of first-line indent, which is around 3.5mm; I often see this size in printed books.

What a great Moon+ day! Italics & bold KitKat bug squashed, and first-line indent customisation option discovered!

I think 1 is perfect too - unfortunately it doesn't work well with certain things. It works when you set it to 2 or turn it off though. First screenshot is with it set to 1, 2nd is set to 2, last is off. Works with everything except my preference. It cuts off the first letter in inline toc also

[Faterson]

Well, Purple Lady, your reading preferences are entirely different from mine, anyway. I just couldn't possibly read books that are not full-justified -- just can't stand those straggling line-ends on the right side. So, I'm unable to comment on your screenshots, because I wouldn't be reading books that way in any case.

I think "2" is really too large a first-line indent -- it's strange that it's Moon's default. "3" is quite absurd. "1" suits me perfectly in all books I've read in Moon so far. No first-line indent is unacceptable to me. (That's actually a standard for many German publishing houses, and it frustrates me a lot.)

Interesting that Moon+ gives you those "1, 2, 3, off" options for first-line indents, whereas for other layout features, you get the option to increase/decrease margins gradually with button presses, with exact numeric values being shown. Well, I'm not gonna complain about that -- that first-line indent "1" is exactly what I was missing in Moon+!

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Faterson

Well, Purple Lady, your reading preferences are entirely different from mine, anyway. I just couldn't possibly read books that are not full-justified -- just can't stand those straggling line-ends on the right side. So, I'm unable to comment on your screenshots, because I wouldn't be reading books that way in any case.

I think "2" is really too large a first-line indent -- it's strange that it's Moon's default. "3" is quite absurd. "1" suits me perfectly in all books I've read in Moon so far. No first-line indent is unacceptable to me. (That's actually a standard for many German publishing houses, and it frustrates me a lot.)

Interesting that Moon+ gives you those "1, 2, 3, off" options for first-line indents, whereas for other layout features, you get the option to increase/decrease margins gradually with button presses, with exact numeric values being shown. Well, I'm not gonna complain about that -- that first-line indent "1" is exactly what I was missing in Moon+!

But does it work correctly for you? That first screenshot shows the first letters missing on all the links when I use 1 which makes it pretty useless.

[Faterson]

I haven't encountered that issue myself so far. Of course, I only discovered the feature the other day, so it's too early to tell. I checked a book of mine with ToC inserted in the text, though, and there are no cut-off letters for me there. Could well be some non-standard coding in your particular book(s) where this occurs for you?

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Faterson

I haven't encountered that issue myself so far. Of course, I only discovered the feature the other day, so it's too early to tell. I checked a book of mine with ToC inserted in the text, though, and there are no cut-off letters for me there. Could well be some non-standard coding in your particular book(s) where this occurs for you?

I just saw a second book today with this problem. For the one in the screen shot it's built from Calibre news feed. The one I found today was a library book so it's two totally different sources.

Here's why I use left justify - the huge spaces between words on most lines is just too difficult to read.