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franklekens · 04-12-2013, 03:18 AM

Okay: is the Kindle entirely unable to deal with smallcaps?

Because I have some books that contain smallcaps, either from the public domain or bought from Dutch publishers in epubs with watermark, and if I convert them in Calibre to mobi or azw3, the italics are no longer visible and the words in smallcaps are all in lower case. (Annoyingly, since most of them are names so *at least* I'd like them to have an initial cap -- but because they're encoded in small caps in the original they don't have an initial cap.)

Is that just not possible in mobi and azw3?

Or is it a limitation of the Calibre conversion?

04-12-2013, 03:18 AM	#1
franklekens Addict Posts: 392 Karma: 3421956 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: Kobo Forma, Sage, Elipsa, Onyx Note2, Pocketbook 360, Kindle Keyboard	Kindle & smallcaps (and italics, Calibre conversion) Okay: is the Kindle entirely unable to deal with smallcaps? Because I have some books that contain smallcaps, either from the public domain or bought from Dutch publishers in epubs with watermark, and if I convert them in Calibre to mobi or azw3, the italics are no longer visible and the words in smallcaps are all in lower case. (Annoyingly, since most of them are names so at least I'd like them to have an initial cap -- but because they're encoded in small caps in the original they don't have an initial cap.) Is that just not possible in mobi and azw3? Or is it a limitation of the Calibre conversion?