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Old 08-15-2010, 05:16 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by AlexBell View Post
I don't know if this helps, but a little while ago I uploaded Lorna Doone which has two Greek verbs in the first chapter, and used the HTML codes for Greek letters to transcribe them. I just checked on my Cybook Gen3 (which so far as I know uses the ADE reader) and the words appear correctly with Verdana, Goudita Sans, Georgia, Bitstream Vera Sans, and the default font family - whatever that may be; it's a sans serif font.

I also checked with the desktop ADE reader on my computer, and again the Greek words appeared as they should.

Is it possible that it is not the ADE reader's fault at all, but the way the Greek characters were encoded in original document from which the ebook was made? I do all the ebooks I prepare by hand, starting with valid XHTML files, so I have no experience with other methods.

Regards, Alex
Unaccented Greek works in pretty much every font; it's the accents that cause problems.

For fragments of Greek in an English book, I generally insert the Greek as a graphical image. That's guaranteed to always work.
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