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Mookiemon · 06-30-2011, 05:36 PM

I'm working on my first epub conversion (I've done a few mobis before). I converted my prc file to epub using Calibre and then opened that epub with Sigil. I've been fine tuning the book and it looks pretty good now but I'm having problems with italic and bold words. I don't have embedded fonts. I've tried using CSS - I have italic as a style in my stylesheet and I tried applying that using word. I've tried directly coding word and word. All of these attempts showed italic correctly when viewed in Sigil's book view, and also when viewed with ADE. However, as soon as I move the epub over to my Kobo touch to test it there, the italics are lost. Bold is exactly the same situation and I'm sure will have the same solution. I looked at other (purchased) books on my Kobo and they have italic and bold words. (I know HTML well but CSS, not so much. Calibre has thrown in a lot of it's own classes which I find a bit confusing - the input file was really pared down.) I've run out of ideas. Thanks to anyone who might have some suggestions!

06-30-2011, 05:36 PM	#1
Mookiemon Carol Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Toronto, Canada Device: kobo	italic and bold ok in sigil but not on Kobo reader I'm working on my first epub conversion (I've done a few mobis before). I converted my prc file to epub using Calibre and then opened that epub with Sigil. I've been fine tuning the book and it looks pretty good now but I'm having problems with italic and bold words. I don't have embedded fonts. I've tried using CSS - I have italic as a style in my stylesheet and I tried applying that using <span class="italic">word</span>. I've tried directly coding <i>word</i> and <em>word</em>. All of these attempts showed italic correctly when viewed in Sigil's book view, and also when viewed with ADE. However, as soon as I move the epub over to my Kobo touch to test it there, the italics are lost. Bold is exactly the same situation and I'm sure will have the same solution. I looked at other (purchased) books on my Kobo and they have italic and bold words. (I know HTML well but CSS, not so much. Calibre has thrown in a lot of it's own classes which I find a bit confusing - the input file was really pared down.) I've run out of ideas. Thanks to anyone who might have some suggestions!