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Old 05-01-2013, 01:32 PM   #1
ricroma
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Kindle and small caps

Hi, this is my first post and I hope this is the right section, if not, I'm sorry!
I'm editing a digital edition for a book of a friend, and I'm facing several difficulties related to fonts. Hope that someone can help.
Here I would like to have help for the most annoying issue I've found so far: I'm using Sigil for editing and then Kindlegen for convert into mobi format. Everything works, only problem is that the mobi file doesn't show small caps (that for peculiar reasons this book is full of). THese are all the information I can think of:

1) in the epub stylesheet I'm using a generic "serif" font:

Code:
@font-face
{
font-family: serif;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: none;
}
2) I created a specific "class" for small caps:

Code:
.sc
{
font-variant: small-caps;
}
3) When I open the mobi file with Kindle Previewer all small caps are shown as regular letters. I've been struggling with this small caps forever, now everything seemed to work excpt this big disappointment when I opened the converted file!

I don't know if Kindle default font doesn't support small caps or if I need to load the small caps font into the file.

Thanks for any help!

Ricroma
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