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HTML5/EPUB3 version of SICP
http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/
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Massive Text #3

Closed cbarrick closed 9 years ago

cbarrick commented 10 years ago

The text is massive in the epub version.

I use Apple iBooks as my epub reader. Even at the smallest font setting, each page is only 45 characters wide, which is extremely unpleasant to read. Ideally, each page would be between 60 and 80 characters wide. I've included a screenshot showing SICP alongside The Swift Programming Language at the same display settings. Swift looks as expected; the text is a little too small but I can increase the size. On the other hand, SICP is still quite large and I can't reduce the font size further.

I don't know anything about the epub format, so I have no idea if this could even be changed. But if possible, halving the font size would be greatly appreciated.

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sarabander commented 10 years ago

The font size is now reduced to almost half, from 170% to 100%. See if it helps. I don't have Apple devices to test the epub on, the only way to check has been by going to the city and testing it in a computer store.

I'm not at all satisfied with the look of the epub in iBooks. It doesn't recognize embedded fonts, math is garbled, Scheme code is not monospaced, and output just vanishes somewhere later in the book.