[OLPC library] Preferred font size for ebooks on the XO?

[Seth Woodworth]

If the material currently exists in a PDF that's fine.  But if at all
possible an ebook should be in html, and a pdf should be converted into
html.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Diane Serley <olpc.aunti.mame at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This works if the page is HTML, but not if its a PDF, etc. Or should all
> e-books should be HTML/XML? There's nothing that explains what
> standards/type/format to use to create e-book collections.
>
> Diane
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> Fonts should be unformatted and in HTML, that way they are:
>>
>> a) Reusuable
>> b) Extensible and the formatting can be viewed via View-source
>> c) Fonts can be set by the user ala about:config
>> d) Reflowed on screen rotation
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Diane asked a great question today that I didn't know the answer to:
>>>
>>> Is there a preferred/recommended font size (or for that matter, font and
>>> formatting) for ebooks being packaged for the XO? She's converting some
>>> public domain stuff for the library, and wants to have the optimal
>>> reading ratio if possible.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> -a curious mel
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