Re: [NTLK] Increasing font size in books

From: Grant [Icosahedron] Hutchinson (grant_at_splorp.com)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 13:25:16 EST


In a previous message, Victor Rehorst typed vigorously:

>> I don't suppose that the font style and point size is stored is some
>> logical spot within the book is it? I'm not clear on what the structure
>> of a compiled Newton book looks like, but could you use something like
>> ViewFrame to find the location of the information and then write a system
>> patch that allowed you to change it?
>
>You probably could. Except that the way the books are structured would
>make it not so useful. AFAIK, when a book is compiled, NPress (or what
>have you) calculates based on the font sizes how much text is going to fit
>on every page, and then that is the text for that page, period. It can't
>automatically "wrap" text to the next page or grab it from a previous page
>to display it. Probably if you increased the font size for a particular
>page you'd just have the text cut off and an ellipse (...) at the end.
>And the next page *wouldn't* have the missing text. This is a bug that
>sometimes happens when compiling books anyways.

I knew that the compilation of the book actually fixes the contents to a
given page, but I forgot about that fact that the non-visible text would
not be accessible. Doh. You know what might be a really cool solution to
this and would avoid the page wrap issue? How about a zoom function? You
would create a virtual page of the current book page that could be viewed
at a different scale by zooming in or out.

I have no idea how how you'd do that. Oh well.

g.

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