#Jutoh embed font how to#
#Jutoh embed font manuals#

You’re probably used to writing sentences with 2 spaces after the period, question mark, or exclamation mark. If you want your eBook to look good on as many devices as possible (and who doesn’t), use only Normal, Bold, and Italic text. Do use only Normal, Bold, and Italic text typesĭon’t use other text-formatting types such as Underline, Strikethrough, Shadow, Superscript, and Subscript, because not all eBook reading devices can display those text types. If you want to emphasize a small amount of text in a paragraph, just use the Bold or Italic buttons rather than creating a Bold or Italic Style. The one exception to this “Always use Styles” rule is Bold and Italic text.

#Jutoh embed font manuals#

For example, if you’re writing user manuals for electronics, you might want to create a “Warning” Style, which uses Bold text in Red.

If you have more Styles than the word processor supports by default, don’t worry: just create a custom Style for each of those unusual types of text. If you have a manuscript that you wrote using ad-hoc changes in font, font size, line spacing, and color, don’t give up: you’ll need to go through your manuscript, find every ad-hoc appearance change, and correct it by correcting the Style of the affected text. Always use only the Style to change the appearance of text. It will think your whole manuscript contains just one, huge chapter.Īnother way to think of this guideline: when writing your manuscript, act as if the font, font size, and other paragraph-formatting controls don’t exist. The crazy-making part is this: because Jutoh formats each manuscript paragraph based on the Style rather than the ad-hoc font and font size, it can’t know that you meant your large, Arial text to be a chapter title. I’ve (incorrectly) changed the text to a chapter title by manually changing the font to Arial and the font size to 16. The text of the chapter title looks the same, but the look hides a subtle and crazy-making difference: the Style of this chapter title is Text Body: the same Style used by normal text in the manuscript. Now look at this figure (the Do NOT figure). Do NOT use ad-hoc font or size adjustments I changed the text from a normal paragraph to a chapter title by changing the Style selection from Text Body to Header 1. Notice also that the Font happens to be Arial and the font size happens to be 16.1. Notice that the figure above (the Do figure) shows a chapter title that uses the Style named “Heading 2”. The figures below illustrates these two approaches in LibreOffice: Do use the Header Style For example, in creating a chapter title, do use the Chapter Title Style (likely named Header 1 or such) do NOT manually adjust the font and font-size to make your chapter titles stand out. Find how your word processor represents Styles, and always use Styles rather than manually (ad-hoc) changing a paragraph’s font, font-size, or color. If you remember only one rule, remember this one, because it will save you hours of tedious reformatting later. Text Do’s Do use Styles rather than ad-hoc font, size, spacing, and color changes The list of Do’s and Don’ts below cover those consequences as well as other manuscript-writing tips that will make your work with Jutoh much easier. This one simple rule has several consequences when you write your manuscript.

#Jutoh embed font how to#

A separate set of information (the Style Sheet) tells the web browser or an eBook reading device how to display that text, such as “Display Header 1 text in boldface 16-point Arial font”. The idea behind this rule is that each block of text should include the name of its particular function, or Style, such as “Header 1”, “Quote”, or “Caption” – without saying anything about how to display text in that Style. Regardless of which word processor or formatting application you use to create eBooks, you can make your eBook formatting process a lot easier by following the basic HTML/CSS rule of separating content (the text and its structure) from presentation (the look of that text on the eBook reader’s screen). Many eBook formats are based on HTML and CSS: the Standards that make web pages automatically adapt to so many different devices. This page covers step 1: writing your manuscript so that it will be easy for you to import it into Jutoh. In Installing Jutoh on WIndows, I outlined the 4-step process of creating an eBook: Write your manuscript, Import it into Jutoh, generate the eBook files, and publish those files to Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, Barnes & Noble’s Nook Press, Apple’s iBook Authors, and other electronic and print distributors. Workflow Step 1: Writing your M anuscript