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Originally Posted by vishcompany
Sorry for asking a maybe stupid question, but why does everybody want to reference to an already existing font, if you can just as well choose it from a menu?
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Because, unfortunately, displaying bold and/or italics in an epub is completely unpredictable when using the standard select-a-font feature if you use anything other than 'Original'. Many people probably don't care, but there are also many who do.
As an English-only reader I'm not 100% sure of the following, but I expect someone will correct me if I'm wrong...
- If you want to retain bold/italics in some (all???) Eastern European language, you would also need to add manual references to one of the 6 extra fonts (Amasis etc) as the 'Original' font does not contain many (any???) of the special accented characters.
- Reading in Chinese (and maybe other languages) is only possible if you manually add the reference to a different internal font (e.g. DroidSansFallback) not 'Original' or any of the 6 extra fonts (Amasis etc).