Sigil & Embedded Fonts
 

I am attempting to embed the Charis font family in an epub. It's not really needed, more of an experiment.

Anyway I followed one of the threads on MobileRead but could not get the fonts to really work. I then came across this:
http://blog.threepress.org/2009/09/1...in-epub-files/

Which seemed to go into it a bit more.

The problem I am having is that I seem to be able to get the regular font version of Charis but I cannot seem to be able to enable the Italics font at least in book view in Sigil. It seems to be working in ADE & the epub viewer plugin for Firefox though it does not work in Calibre.

Should the embedded fonts show up properly in Sigil assuming I have done the coding properly and the fonts are in the right spot or is Sigil limited in this regard. Just wanting to know if I should continue to beat my head against the wall trying to figure out what is wrong.

Both Calibre and Sigil use the Qt library for the GUI. The current version of the library has a bug that prevents italics and bold to show properly with embedded fonts.
To check your book you have to use something else, like ADE or ePubreader, as you mentioned.

Thank you. At least I know what's wrong then and can work around that.

Hello just want to share my way around the italics/bold issue. I use Dreamweaver in conjunction with sigil. In Dreamweaver you can definitely see the italics and bolds. I do my html changes in Dreamweaver, then cut and paste in Sigil.