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Originally Posted by karunaji
It doesn't matter if they can. They question is do we really need it? While mobi is indeed seriously limited and epub is only slightly better, there are certain print features that are less relevant on e-readers.
I am not against font embedding but it should be used sparingly. It is rarely that a specific font is a part of author's intended message or even part of reasons why we read the story. It was fine with pbooks because that's the feature of the medium and there was no other choice. Publishers often designed their own fonts to send a message but often it was a message from a publisher, not from an author. On e-readers more often than not a different font will be a nuisance, not an improvement.
If you want to highlight a certain character one must look for other ways to do it. Text blocks with borders made from image could be one suggestion.
So, maybe it is a blessing in disguise that mobi does not support font embedding. It gives more power to author with their written word and makes publishers less visible. There is some loss but the gain is much bigger.
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There are times though that it also weakens the power of the author. What if I have a portion of text that I want to mimic handwriting, because it is supposed to be a letter? In situations like that, I feel that as an author, I'd like to have the choice of using visual representations, over describing what I want represented.