When doing ebook conversions, I have been leaving "fonts" and "colors" checked under Look and Feel > Styling > Filter Style Information.
I started doing this because I got frustrated with so many ebooks forcing fonts, leaving me unable to change font type, weight, etc. I'd often encounter this when starting a new book away from my computer, so I just set this globally, and convert every book before loading it onto my ereader.
(I checked colors because I thought it might make it easier/faster for my ereaders to handle the images. It didn't seem necessary to retain colors for e-ink screens.)
All I wanted to do was control the fonts, and I don't care about retaining the publisher's fonts, as readability is more important to me. But now I am curious, how much of the appearance of the books am I actually changing? I only know a little about CSS, so I am wondering if I am changing much more than just which type of font is used and their sizes and weights.
Can anyone explain in simple terms?
I'd also appreciate an ELI5 on what happens when margins, padding and floats are checked, if anyone is so inclined. I read up what I could about what those mean in CSS, but I am having trouble understanding what they mean in regards to ebooks in this context.
Thank you!
I started doing this because I got frustrated with so many ebooks forcing fonts, leaving me unable to change font type, weight, etc. I'd often encounter this when starting a new book away from my computer, so I just set this globally, and convert every book before loading it onto my ereader.
(I checked colors because I thought it might make it easier/faster for my ereaders to handle the images. It didn't seem necessary to retain colors for e-ink screens.)
All I wanted to do was control the fonts, and I don't care about retaining the publisher's fonts, as readability is more important to me. But now I am curious, how much of the appearance of the books am I actually changing? I only know a little about CSS, so I am wondering if I am changing much more than just which type of font is used and their sizes and weights.
Can anyone explain in simple terms?
I'd also appreciate an ELI5 on what happens when margins, padding and floats are checked, if anyone is so inclined. I read up what I could about what those mean in CSS, but I am having trouble understanding what they mean in regards to ebooks in this context.
Thank you!