TOC font size question

[michaelbr]

Sorry, I'm new to Sigil, I just read Sigil's manual, but couldn't find how/where to change the font size for headings. I tried to add TOC to my existing epub book, but after add the title to heading 1, the default font size is too big, how can I change the size/font of the headings so I can use it as default for all other books? I'm trying to set it as apps default so every time I open Sigil, it'll use that font/size for heading 1/2...

Thanks in advance for any comments/suggestions.
Michael

[theducks]

Originally Posted by michaelbr

Sorry, I'm new to Sigil, I just read Sigil's manual, but couldn't find how/where to change the font size for headings. I tried to add TOC to my existing epub book, but after add the title to heading 1, the default font size is too big, how can I change the size/font of the headings so I can use it as default for all other books? I'm trying to set it as apps default so every time I open Sigil, it'll use that font/size for heading 1/2...

Thanks in advance for any comments/suggestions.
Michael

You could make a style sheet entry to override the default heading sizes et al.

h1 {font-size: 24pt}

You can apply any valid attributes there. I prefer font-size: 200%
which is 200% of the body font

[michaelbr]

Originally Posted by theducks

You could make a style sheet entry to override the default heading sizes et al.

h1 {font-size: 24pt}

You can apply any valid attributes there. I prefer font-size: 200%
which is 200% of the body font

Thanks theducks, this is what I did:
- after opening Sigil with no book, I went to left side, right clicked Styles > Add New Item then add your code into the right side style sheet, the problem is whenever I close Sigil, the change is gone, is there anyway that I can save the style into Sigil, so every time I open Sigil or a new book, it'll be there?

Thanks

[theducks]

Originally Posted by michaelbr

Thanks theducks, this is what I did:
- after opening Sigil with no book, I went to left side, right clicked Styles > Add New Item then add your code into the right side style sheet, the problem is whenever I close Sigil, the change is gone, is there anyway that I can save the style into Sigil, so every time I open Sigil or a new book, it'll be there?

Thanks

Not that I know.
Are you building "New" books with Sigil?
Options:
1)Just make a "Plain text" type file with Notepad (or favorite programmers editor) with your standard CSS stuff. Save as/rename to: Myfilename.css
add that for every new book. (The problem with this, is you always need to make the Link entry on the files in Text/files.xhtml)


2) Find a book with a Stylesheet (and/ Page layout) you like.
SAVE AS "MyNewBook"
Now remove all the Duplicates of "Types of pages". So you have 1 of Each: Title-page,Copyright: Prologue ...
Carefully trim down the words, leaving just enough to keep the tags in place (CV) A lot of work).

I just keep "Snippets of CSS and code blocke in a seperate file that I view with Notepad++ and copy and paste into Sigil, as needed

[Perkin]

Another way, is to create the css in a new epub, with a link in the first html, then save as template.epub, then when you want to, load in and 'save as' filename.epub (or copy file as newfilename.epub, then open in sigil).

[michaelbr]

Thanks all for your reply and suggestion, I'll do just as suggested.

Michael