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Originally Posted by bobcdy
Unfortunately, Mantano Reader still had a problem with the small caps font described above. For example 'twenty-five feet' showed as 'twen - ve feet'. I downloaded the offending font to the Mantano fonts folder, but this did not help (fonts in the folder can be chosen for the body text). Choosing the offending small caps font for the body text allows finding exactly what letters don't show, but I found this is complex and not easily interpreted. The problem is not caused by the e-reader apps because all I've tested have the same difficulty. Apparently, the Nook, or its android system, doesn't like that font, and I have no idea if the problem will occur on other e-book readers. My Sony PRS-950, in addition to BeBook One and computer ADE, had no difficulty with the font. I'll use a different font on new epubs.
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if attempting to display text which was not originally small caps in a small caps font (forgive me, but i wasn't clear on which way you were going) could the problem have been related to ligatures? the pair "fi" in "five" and "ty" in "twenty" would be exactly the sort of thing that a publisher might have used a ligature for, and if there wasn't an equivalent in the small caps font, you would have gotten nothing.
sorry, i know little about epublishing, but the "fi" jumped out at me when reading your description.