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Originally Posted by roger64
Real life is pretty large. You may wish to embed fonts for many reasons: contents or aesthetics among them. For example, to display Greek quotes, true smallcaps, dropcaps using special Swash fonts for laser effects  , etc. |
Please don't misquote me. What I actually said was
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In real life, I've no idea why any Kobo owner would ever need to embed a main body text font
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In case the emphasised part is ambiguous, by
main body text font I mean the font which will be used to display the epub's standard, plain paragraphs. I certainly didn't intend to imply that no Kobo owner would ever want to embed fonts to enhance
certain portions of an epub, e.g. SmallCaps and DropCaps.
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Originally Posted by roger64
For the time being Kobo ignore these special needs. You'll find here an example with any of these books:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...92#post2446592
- the EPUBs are not displayed correctly because Kobo ignores the Linux Libertine Display font (used for some titles and dropcaps) and the smallcaps font. |
I will look at your linked post later (my schoolgirl French is somewhat rusty so I'll have to rely on Google translate
), but in the meantime all I can say is that I can and do display special dropcap and SmallCaps fonts on my Kobo Glo. See attached pics.
The only Kobo-specific problem with fonts that I have encountered so far is the fact that there is no built-in monospace font. But this can be solved in the same way as SmallCaps/DropCaps, i.e. either by embedding one or by css-referencing a sideloaded one in the Kobo /fonts directory.