06-20-2021, 03:27 PM | #16 | |
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06-21-2021, 12:42 AM | #17 | |||
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Personally, I find the concern over monospaced fonts a bit strange. I remember noticing that the Kobo devices didn't support them when I got my original Touch. But, the only times I have ever noticed the lack is when someone points it out in discussions like this. All the books I have either don't need one, or use an embedded monospace font. Quote:
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And, as @hobnail said, it is not the driver or conversion, it is the renderer. These differences are in how the renderer lays out the text. |
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06-21-2021, 03:11 AM | #18 | |
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THIS! I know what ligatures are, I know what kerning is, but despite my best efforts at searching, have been totally unable to find a damn to give about either, at least when it comes to English recreational reading. |
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06-21-2021, 12:37 PM | #19 | |
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eg Cursive for hand (short) written notes. Mono-spaced for old typewriters or glass teletype messages.... Do I need a rooted device to use the Courier method? If I embed a mono-spaced font, will it be used? |
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06-21-2021, 12:58 PM | #20 | |
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Rooted? A foreign concept for a Kobo ereader. Just place a font whose name starts with Courier in a fonts (note no upper case) directory in the root of the exposed storage. If you have another favourite such as Source Code Prime, use the patch to enable using that font instead. If done properly, it will work. One of the few books where I bothered to do this was Andy Weir's The Martian where I liked seeing the VXWorks output in a monospaced font. |
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06-21-2021, 01:23 PM | #21 |
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Thanks. So many different devices, I get confused which solution works with which. Right now I am fighting with 'Great Vibes' (A free Cursive from Google). I won't work on either my K4 (AZW3) or my Aura (as KEPUB), but looks fine in Calibre/Sigil. |
06-21-2021, 02:09 PM | #22 |
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I've converted several books from Project Gutenberg where they have telegrams, and hand written notes or letters. I punt on the latter and just use italics. And for the kobo for the telegrams it just gets sans serif, which is better than nothing.
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06-22-2021, 07:06 AM | #23 |
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I use font embedding. Of course Kindle users might not select it, so I check that the styles all make sense on a DXG, KK3 and PW3 in default mode (DXG only has default, though on a good day it does support monospaced, serif and sans).
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07-09-2021, 02:13 PM | #24 |
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It would help when comparing Readers to show both using the same eBook starting at at the same place.
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07-10-2021, 12:30 AM | #25 |
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I've never had dropcaps render identical on my Kobo and Kindle. For some reason they land just a tad different vertically .
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07-13-2021, 12:17 PM | #26 | |
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Dropcaps are one thing that needs to go away. Also, on a Kindle, a large first letter can also break the look of the eBook with that line being too high. |
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07-14-2021, 09:18 AM | #27 |
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I hate Drop Caps even in paper books. A publisher ego thing that should have stopped a 100 years ago. It was a fashion and reduces readability. We have better formatting styles to show the start of a chapter or section. I remove the formatting in ebooks.
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07-14-2021, 01:35 PM | #28 |
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Another thing I dislike is when smallcaps are used to denote the start of a chapter and/or section. If you are going to denote the start of a chapter/section, do so with a non-indent as long as you also using proper spacing or a proper character between the sections. I prefer a 60% wide 2px <hr/>. It works realy well and if it gets to the end of the screen/page, you do see the line be it the bottom or the top and you easily know you are starting another section.
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