[charleski]

Originally Posted by SCION

Thank you. Perhaps the original post can be updated to include this. That's a big addition to some folks who would consider the Kobo. I've directed some to this thread.

Yes indeed! So hyperlinks within ePubs work now? That's a critical change that makes the KT useable as an ereader and MDK should have announced that as well.

The problem with bold and italic is obviously linked to the need for separate fonts. If the Opentype properties fields are correctly specified it's often possible for software to recognise that different font files belong to the same family and group them together properly. But a more general solution would be to change the way fonts are loaded onto the device. There has to be a method for specifying which fonts files are associated variants and which weight/style they serve. For instance they could change it so you have to create a directory with the font family name, then create subdirectories inside this called 'bold', 'italic', 'regular' and 'bolditalic' then drop the correct font files into each directory. It's more fiddly than just dumping in a file, but could be automated by the desktop software, and has to be done to make user-supplied fonts a viable option. Whatever they do, they must resist any temptation to fake bold and italic by slanting or fattening the regular font (which would be the kiss of death).