[pholy]

If I change the font-style in my @font-face definition to italic, and leave the span class definition as
.TurinTalk {
font-family: "Hand Me Down S (BRK)", sans-serif;
font-style: italic;
}

then in ADE I get the hand-me-down font used, and in fb2 (which doesn't do embedded fonts) I get the default font with italic rendering...

Is that sort of like what you wanted, Jane? I think something like that may be the only way to get a fall-back generic font to render with a style. As long as you don't try to use the same font with different styles, I think it works OK.

But I think it's kind of ugly... Does anybody think it would be acceptable? On the other hand, if hand-me-down was an italic font, you would want to say so in the @font-face, and you would have to use italic in the class definition, so maybe it is OK?

How many epub readers don't do embedded fonts (besides iPads, of course)? (And on iPads, you can specify up to five of the 30-some available fonts.)