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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh
G'day James,
Just wandered by, and spotted this thread. (How've you been?)
The "Fonts" folder on the Story lets you change the font to a custom choice in some of the auxiliary apps, like the notebook and calendar, but not in displaying ePubs.
To get a custom font in the ePub, you have to change the CSS to call that font (which you've done) but also embed the font file in TTF format within the ePub file itself.
Easiest way is to open the ePub file in Sigil. There'll be a Fonts folder already in the ePub structure. Copy the fonts in there (named the same as the reference in the CSS, obviously) and save the file, and you're away. ;-)
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Thanks, Bran, you've saved me from experimenting. I was assuming that the fonts folder was for loading fonts which could then be called from an epub. That's how I originally tested it, and it didn't work, and I was going to give it a much more thorough test "later". I thought it was a case of not having specified the path to the font properly.
As to the other bit, yep, I've experimented with that, and it works a dream. So much so that the epub version of my book has fully accented pinyin, whereas the Kindle version (mobi which doesn't support embedded fonts) has to use unaccented pinyin.
Pinyin, for those who don't know, is a way of expressing chinese - and some other languages - using western characters with accents to indicate the tonal pronunciation.