Thread: italic and bold ok in sigil but not on Kobo reader
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Old 07-13-2011, 06:39 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Mookiemon View Post
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!
If you are using the Kobo Touch, there is a bug in version 1.9.5 of the firmware whereby italic and bold fonts are not displayed for side-loaded EPUBS (Kobo EPUBS are okay). This is expected to be fixed in the next release of the firmware.
Last edited by Joe563; 07-13-2011 at 06:41 PM. Reason: Clarification
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