Embedding italics

[AlexBell]

I've spent that last couple of days groping around trying to embed DejaVuSans.ttf font into an ebook I'm preparing which uses the full range of Greek characters - including those with accents and diacretics - and has some of the English and Greek Words italicised. So far I can get the full range of Greek characters to show on my Sony PRS T1, Kindle3 (after converting with calibre), and iPad/iBooks.

But though the italics show on the Kindle and iPad they don't show on the Sony.

I'm using the CSS below:

@font-face {
font-family: 'DejaVuSans';
src: url(Fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf);
}

body {
margin: 0; padding: 0; border-width: 0;
font-size: 95%;
text-align: justify;
line-height: 120%;
font-familyejaVuSans; DejaVuSans-Oblique;
}

with
<item href="Fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf" id="DejaVuSans.ttf" media-type="application/x-font-ttf" />
in the content.opf file.

If I add

@font-face {
font-family: 'DejaVuSans';
src: url(Fonts/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf);
}

to the stylesheet file and

<item href="Fonts/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf" id="DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf" media-type="application/x-font-ttf" />

to the content.opf file all the text is italicised on the Sony, not just those parts around which I've put <i></i> tags.

What am I doing wrong? Is there a font I can embed which does not need a
an italicised font to be embedded? And why do the <i></i> tags work in mobi and on the iPad but not on the Sony?

Edit: I've no idea why the big grin smilie shows above - I certainly didn't put it there.

[Jellby]

You need to embed both files, and to add both @font-face rules:

@font-face {
 font-family: 'DejaVuSans';
 src: url(Fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf);
 font-weight: normal;
 font-style: normal;
}

@font-face {
 font-family: 'DejaVuSans';
 src: url(Fonts/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf);
 font-weight: normal;
 font-style: italic;
}

Note the green parts are the same, the red parts are different.

Now it should be possible to have:

<p style="font-family: 'DejaVuSans'">Some <i>italic</i> words.</p>

(or with an external CSS instead of the "style" attribute)

[AlexBell]

Thanks so much, Jellby, I'm off to make the corrections.

It works! I've done my first embedded font ebook!

Thanks again, Jellby, I really appreciate your patience and your clear instructions.