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bobcdy · 05-28-2012, 04:46 PM

spinee,
Thanks for the suggestion. The small caps font was embedded in the epubs, so ligatures could not cause the difficulty in displaying all letters. The reason for my problem on a rooted NST is addressed in the last paragraph of my post: android has problems with otc fonts that have been edited to delete unnecessary glyphs. The systems on many other non-android e-readers do not have this problem.

Ligatures present a different problem than small caps, and would require an embedded font that handles ligatures; few (any?) small caps fonts will contain ligatures. There are a few ligature fonts around: the Fell Revivial Fonts are probably best known. I don't believe that any can be fully used with a standard keyboard because many of the ligatures are combinations of letters such as 'ct' 'ae' and 'st', and would require a special keyboard or some way to remap various keys to each ligature. Some of the Adobe Pro fonts contain old English ligatures but they can best be accessed by a special program such as PopChar and not by a keyboard.

And don't apologize about being new to epublishing - all of the MR participants were once rank beginners.

05-28-2012, 04:46 PM	#6
bobcdy Fanatic Posts: 527 Karma: 1048576 Join Date: May 2009 Device: bebook; prs-950; nook simple touch; HTC Jetstream tablet	spinee, Thanks for the suggestion. The small caps font was embedded in the epubs, so ligatures could not cause the difficulty in displaying all letters. The reason for my problem on a rooted NST is addressed in the last paragraph of my post: android has problems with otc fonts that have been edited to delete unnecessary glyphs. The systems on many other non-android e-readers do not have this problem. Ligatures present a different problem than small caps, and would require an embedded font that handles ligatures; few (any?) small caps fonts will contain ligatures. There are a few ligature fonts around: the Fell Revivial Fonts are probably best known. I don't believe that any can be fully used with a standard keyboard because many of the ligatures are combinations of letters such as 'ct' 'ae' and 'st', and would require a special keyboard or some way to remap various keys to each ligature. Some of the Adobe Pro fonts contain old English ligatures but they can best be accessed by a special program such as PopChar and not by a keyboard. And don't apologize about being new to epublishing - all of the MR participants were once rank beginners. Last edited by bobcdy; 05-28-2012 at 05:27 PM.